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   Part , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parted; p. pr. & vb. n. Parting.] [F. partir, L. partire, partiri, p. p. partitus, fr. pars, gen. partis, a part. See Part, n.]
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   To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. “Thou shalt part it in pieces.” 
   Lev. ii. 6.
   
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   There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues.
   Keble.
   
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   To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.
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   To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee.
   Pope.
   
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   They parted my raiment among them.
   John xix. 24.
   
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   To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
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   The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
   Ruth i. 17.
   
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   While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
   Luke xxiv. 51.
   
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   The narrow seas that part
   The French and English.
   Shak.
   
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   Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.
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   The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
   Shak.
   
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   To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.
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   The liver minds his own affair, . . .
   And parts and strains the vital juices.
   Prior.
   
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   To leave; to quit. [Obs.]
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   Since presently your souls must part your bodies.
   Shak.
   
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   To separate (a collection of objects) into smaller collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle.
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   To part a cable (Naut.), to break it. -- To part company, to separate, as travelers or companions.
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   parted , a.
    Separated; divided.
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   Endowed with parts or abilities. [Obs.]
   B. Jonson.
   
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   (Bot.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc.
   Gray.
   
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