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rting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom. And good from bad find no partition. Shak.

The act of partitioning.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

ments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.

A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.

A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

With two partitions or septa. Gray.

A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement. Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage. Dorset. The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges. Dryden.

A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. Aqueduct bridge. See Aqueduct. -- Asses' bridge, Bascule bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau. -- Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the r…

A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.

Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew.

One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.

red himself with glory. The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. Brougham.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. -- Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. -- Death stroke, a stroke causing death. -- Death throe, the spasm of death. -- Death token, the signal of approaching death. -- Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority f…

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.