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not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet. Acts v. 2. Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not contain a secret relation of the parts Locke. I am a part of all that I have met. Te…

See Partible. Camden.

Part; portion; share. [Obs.] Ford.

To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." Locke. When I against myself with thee partake. Shak.

One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark.

An edible British crab. [Prov. Eng.]

Endowed with parts or abilities. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who, or which, parts or separates. Sir P. Sidney.

An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

A poem in honor of a virgin. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniæ, or sons of unmarried women.

The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.…

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms. -- Par`the*no*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Parthenogenetic.

Same as Parthenogenesis.

A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.

One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon. "Partial dissolutions of the earth." T. Burnet.

Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.