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, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. Gray.

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.

Divided from the border to the base into two distinct parts; bipartite.

efly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

; to fit out. The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

To lend aid; to help. With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end. Milton.

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.

To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.

le, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21.

Parted like the fingers.

To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

Divided; separated; parted. [Obs.] Shak.