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A part or portion. [Obs.] "The most party of the time." Chaucer.

Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

Devotion to party.

A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.

A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform…

e, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. [Written also purpart, and pourparty.] I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.

To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. Kent.

Submission to an injury by the party injured.

ther by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

e of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.

ntrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.

A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.

igned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

Hence; A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.