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To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts. Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with rocks. Coleridge. Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.

A smart, ready, and witty reply. Cupid was as bad as he; Hear but the youngster's repartee. Prior.

A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.

Another, or an additional, separation into parts.

The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.

Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.

That partiality to himself by which a man overrates his own worth when compared with others. Kames.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey. -- n.

rcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.

Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (or Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. Loudon.

An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd. [Obs.] He hath a sparth of twenty pound of weight. Chaucer.

A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau.

A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of b…

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. [Obs.] Hutton.

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10. [Obs.] Hutton.

Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.

Parted into three piece; having three parts or pieces; -- said of the field or of a bearing; as, a cross triparted.

Divisible into three parts.

Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.