Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 21
Particularization (n.) The act of particularizing.
Particularized (imp. & p. p.) of Particularize.
Particularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Particularize.
Particularize (v. t.) 詳細說明，列舉，大書特書 To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.
Particularize (v. i.) To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative.
Particularize (v.) Be specific about; "Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?" [syn: {specify}, {particularize}, {particularise}, {specialize}, {specialise}] [ant: {generalise}, {generalize}].
Particularly (adv.) 特別，尤其；詳細地，詳盡地；具體地，明確地 In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.
Particularly (adv.) In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure.
The exact propriety of Virgil I particularly regarded as a great part of his character. -- Dryden.
Particularly (adv.) To a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common; "he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger" [syn: {particularly}, {peculiarly}, {especially}, {specially}].
Particularly (adv.) Specifically or especially distinguished from others; "loves Bach, particularly his partitas"; "recommended one book in particular"; "trace major population movements for the Pueblo groups in particular" [syn: {particularly}, {in particular}].
Particularly (adv.) Uniquely or characteristically; "these peculiarly cinematic elements"; "a peculiarly French phenomenon"; "everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him" -- John Knowles [syn: {peculiarly}, {particularly}].
Particularment (n.) A particular; a detail. [Obs.]
Particulate (v. t. & i.) To particularize. [Obs.]
Particulate (a.) 微粒的 Having the form of a particle.
Particulate (a.) Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc. [R.]
The smallpox is a particulate disease. -- Tyndall.
Particulate (a.) Composed of particles; finely divided.
Particulate (n.) 微粒狀物質 Matter composed of particles; -- often used in the pl.; as, the quantity of particulates in auto exhaust is strictly regulated.
Particulate (a.) Composed of distinct particles [ant: {nonparticulate}].
Particulate (n.) A small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) [syn: {particulate}, {particulate matter}].
Parting (a.) Serving to part; dividing; separating.
Parting (a.) Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute. "Give him that parting kiss." -- Shak.
Parting (a.) Departing. "Speed the parting guest." -- Pope.
Parting (a.) Admitting of being parted; partible.
Parting fellow, A partner. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parting pulley. See under Pulley.
Parting sand (Founding), Dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation.
Parting strip (Arch.), In a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights.
Parting tool (Mach.), A thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.
Parting (n.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation. "The parting of the way." -- Ezek. xxi. 21.
Parting (n.) A separation; a leave-taking. -- Shak.
And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts. -- Byron.
Parting (n.) A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
Parting (n.) (Founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
Parting (n.) (Chem.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
Parting (n.) (Geol.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
Parting (n.) (Naut.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
Parting (n.) (Min.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
Parting (n.) The act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" [syn: farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting].
Parting (n.) A line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions; "his part was right in the middle" [syn: part, parting].
Partisan (n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." -- Macaulay.
Both sides had their partisans in the colony. -- Jefferson.
Partisan (n.) (Mil.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Partisan (n.) (Mil.) Any member of such a corps.
Partisan (a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
Partisan (a.) (Mil.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.
Partisan ranger (Mil.), A member of a partisan corps.
Partisan (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.
And make him with our pikes and partisans a grave. -- Shak.
Partisan (a.) Devoted to a cause or party [syn: partisan, partizan] [ant: nonpartisan, nonpartizan]
Partisan (n.) A fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn: partisan, zealot, drumbeater] [ant: nonpartisan, nonpartizan].
Partisan (n.) An ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity [syn: enthusiast, partisan, partizan].
Partisan (n.) A pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries [syn: partisan, partizan].
Partisanship (n.) The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
Partisanship (n.) An inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives [syn: partiality, partisanship] [ant: impartiality, nonpartisanship].
Partita (n.) [It.] (Mus.) A suite; a set of variations.
Partita (n.) One of the variations contained in a partita.
Partita (n.) (Music) An instrumental suite common in the 18th century.
Partite (a.) (Bot.) Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.
Partite (a.) Consisting of parts; usually used in compounds specifying the number of parts; as, a tripartite treaty.
Partitioned (imp. & p. p.) of Partition.
Partitioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Partition.
Partition (v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.
Partition (v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.
Uniform without, though severally partitioned within. -- Bacon.
Partition (n.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
And good from bad find no partition. -- Shak.
Partition (n.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, a compartment of a room, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions; cubicles with four-foot high partitions.
No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass. -- Dryden.
Partition (n.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment. [R.] "Lodged in a small partition". -- Milton.
Partition (n.) (Law.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
Partition (n.) (Mus.) A score.
Partition of numbers (Math.), The resolution of integers into parts subject to given conditions. -- Brande & C.
Partitionment (n.) The act of partitioning.
Partitive (a.) (Gram.) Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.
Partitive (n.) (Gram.) A word or phrase expressing partition, or denoting a part; as, the phrase "of the team" in "half of the team."
Partitively (adv.) In a partitive manner.
Partlet (n.) [Dim. of part.] A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Partlet (n.) A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. "Dame Partlett, the hen." -- Shak.
Partly (adv.) In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." -- 1 Cor. xi. 18.
Partner (v. t.) To associate, to join. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Partner (n.) [C] （一起行動的）伙伴，拍檔；合夥人，共同出資人 One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence:
Partner (n.) A husband or a wife.
Partner (n.) Either one of a couple who dance together.
Partner (n.) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.
My other self, the partner of my life. -- Milton.
Partner (n.) (Law) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.
Partner (n.) pl. (Naut.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.
Dormant partner, or Silent partner. 不露面的合夥人；不過問業務的合夥人 See under Dormant, a.
Syn: Associate; colleague; coadjutor; confederate; partaker; participator; companion; comrade; mate.
Partner (n.) A person's partner in marriage [syn: spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half].
Partner (n.) An associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners" [syn: collaborator, cooperator, partner, pardner].
Partner (n.) A person who is a member of a partnership.
Partner (v.) (v. t.) 同……合作（或合夥），做……的伙伴；使合作，使結夥 [（+up/ with）]；(v. i.) 合夥；合股；成為搭檔 [（+with）] Provide with a partner.
Partner (v.) Act as a partner; "Astaire partnered Rogers."
Partnership (n.) 合夥（或合作）關係 [U]；合股關係 [U] [C]；合資公司，合夥公司 [C] The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.
Partnership (n.) A division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest.
Rome, that ne'er knew three lordly heads before, First fell by fatal partnership of power. -- Rowe.
He does possession keep, And is too wise to hazard partnership. -- Dryden.
Partnership (n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.
Partnership (n.) (Law) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure. -- Kent. -- Story.
Note: Community of profit is absolutely essential to, though not necessarily the test of, a partnership.
Partnership (n.) (Arith.) See {Fellowship}, n., 6.
{Limited partnership}, A form of partnership in which the firm consists of one or more general partners, jointly and severally responsible as ordinary partners, and one or more special partners, who are not liable for the debts of the partnership beyond the amount of cash they contribute as capital.
{Partnership in commendam}, The title given to the limited partnership (F. soci['e]t['e] en commandit['e]) of the French law, introduced into the code of Louisiana. -- Burrill.
{Silent partnership}, The relation of partnership sustained by a person who furnishes capital only.
Partnership (n.) The members of a business venture created by contract.
Partnership (n.) A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal; "effective language learning is a partnership between school, teacher and student"; "the action teams worked in partnership with the government."
Partnership (n.) A contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses.
Partnership (n.), Contracts. An agreement between two or more persons, for joining together their money, goods, labor and skill, or either or all of them, for the purpose of advancing fair trade, and of dividing the profits and losses arising from it, proportionably or otherwise, between them. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1435; Watson on Partn. 1; Gow on Partn. 2; see Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2772; Code Civ. art. 1832; Forbes. Inst. of Scotch Law, part 2, B. 3, s. 3, p. 184; edit. Edin. 1722, 12mo.; Dolmat, Civ. Law, vol. 1, p. 85; 9. John. R. 488; Puffend. B. 5, c. 8; 2 H. Bl. 246; 1 H. Bl. 37; Ersk. Inst. B. 3, t. 3, Sec. 18; Tapia, Elementos de Jurisp. Mercantil, p. 86; 5 Duv. Dr. Civ. Fr. tit. 9, c. 1, n, 17; 4 Pard. Dr. Com. n. 966; 2 Bell's Com. 611, 5th ed.; Aso & Mann. Inst. B. 2, tit.
Partnership (n.) Sometimes partnership signifies a moral being composed of the reunion of all the partners. 4 Pard. n. 966. As a partnership has a separate existence as a person, it becomes liable to fulfill all its engagements, and the partners are individually bound and responsible only on its default, as sureties. 2 Bell's Comm. B. 6, c. 1, n. 4, p. 619, 5th ed.
Partnership (n.) Partnerships will be considered, 1st. In respect to their character and extent, as they regard property. 2d. With relation to the number and character of parties. 3d. As they are divided by the French code. 4th. As to their creation. 5th. As to their object. 6th. As to their duration. 7th. As to their dissolution. 8th. As to partnerships in Louisiana.
Partnership (n.) In respect to their character and extent, as they regard property, partnerships maybe divided into three classes, namely: universal partnerships; general partnerships; and limited or special partnerships. 1. A universal partnership is one where the parties agree to bring into the firm all their property, real, personal and mixed, and to employ all their skill, labor, and services, in the trade, or business, for their common benefit. This, kind of partnership is perhaps unknown in the United States. 5 Mason, R. 176.
Partnership (n.) General partnerships are properly such, where the parties carry on all their trade and business for their joint benefit and profit; and it is not material whether the capital stock be limited or not, or the contributions of the partners be equal or unequal. Cowp. 814. The game appellation is given to a partnership where the parties are engaged in one branch of trade only.
Partnership (n.) Special partnerships, are those formed for a special or particular branch of business, as contradistinguished from the general business or employment of the parties, or of one of them. When they extend to a single transaction or adventure only, such as the purchase and sale of a particular parcel of goods, they are more commonly called limited partnerships. The appellation is however given to both classes of cases indiscriminately. Story, Partn. Sec. 75.
Partnership (n.) When considered in relation to the number and character of the parties, partnerships are divided into private partnerships and public companies. 1. Private partnerships are those which consist of two or more partners for some private undertaking, trade, or business.
Partnership (n.) Public companies are those where a greater number of persons are concerned, and the stock is divided into a considerable number of shares, the object embracing generally public as well as private interests. This term is, however, perhaps loosely applied, as these companies have for the most part the character of private associations. They are either incorporated or not. The incorporated are to be governed by the rules established in their respective charters. See Corporation. The unincorporated are in general subject, to all the regulations of a common private partnership.
Partnership (n.) In the French law, partnerships are divided into three kinds, namely: 1. Partnerships under a collective name, that is, where the name of the firm contains the names of all or some of the partners.
Partnership (n.) Partnerships en commandite or in commendam; these are limited partnerships, where one or more persons are general partners, and are jointly and severally responsible with all their estates, and one or, more other persons who furnish a part or the whole of the capital, who are liable only to the extent of the capital they have furnished. The business is carried on in, the name of the general partners. This species of partnership, with some modifications, has been adopted in several of the states of the American union. 3 Kent, Com. 34, 4th ed.; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1473, et seq.
Partnership (n.) Anonymous partnerships are those in which all the partners are engaged in the business, there is no social name or firm, but a name designating the object of the association. The business is managed by syndics or directors. Vide Poth. de Societe, h.t.; 5, Duv. Dr. Civ., Fr. h.t.; Pardes. Dr: Com. h.t.; Code de Com. h.t.; Merl. Repert. h.t. In Louisiana a similar division has been made. Civ. Code of Lo. h.t.
Partnership (n.) Partnerships are created by mere act of the parties; and in this they differ from, corporations which require the sanction of public authority, either express or implied. Aug. & Ames on Corp. 23. The consent of the parties may be testified, either in express terms, as by articles of partnership, or positive agreement; or the assent may be tacit, and to be implied solely from the act of the parties. An implied or presumptive assent has equal operation with one that is express and determined. And it may be laid down as a general and undeniable proposition, that persons having a mutual interest in the profits and loss of any business, or particular branch of business, carried on by them, or persons appearing ostensibly to the world as joint traders, are to be recognized and treated as partners, whatever may be the nature of the agreement under which they act, or whatever motive or inducement may prompt them to such an exhibition. 1 Dall. 269.
Partnership (n.) A community of property does not of itself create a partnership, however that property may be acquired, whether by purchase, donation, accession, inheritance or prescription. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 2777. Hence joint tenants or tenants in common of lands, goods, or chattels, under devises or bequests in last wills or testaments, and deeds or donations inter vivos, and inheritances or successions, are not partners. Story, Partn. Sec. 3.
Partnership (n.) Joint owners of ships are not, in consequence of such ownership, to be considered as partners. Abbot on Ship. 68; 3. Kent, Com. 25, 4th ed.; 15 Wend. 187; and see Poth. De Societe, n. 2; 4 Pard. Dr. Com. n. 969; 17 Dur. Dr. Fr. n. 320; 5 Duv. Dr. Civ. Fr. n. 33.
Partnership (n.) The free and personal choice of the contracting parties is so essentially necessary to the constituting of a partnership, that even executors and representatives of deceased partners do not, in their representative capacity, succeed to the state and condition of partners; 2 Ves. sen. 34; Wats. on Partn. 6; although a community of interest necessarily exists between them and the surviving partners, until the affairs of the partnership are wound up. 11 Ves. 3. When there is a positive agreement at the commencement of the partnership, that the personal representative or heir of a partner shall succeed him in the partnership, the obligation will be considered valid. Coll. on part. B. 1; ch. 1, Sec. 11; Story, Partn. Sec. 5.
Partnership (n.) The object of the partnership must be legal. All partnerships, therefore, which are formed for any purpose forbidden by law or good morals, are null and void. But all the partners in such a partnership are jointly liable to third persons who may contract with them without a knowledge of the illegal or immoral object of the partnership. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2775; 5 B. & A. 341 2 B. & P. 371; 3 T. R. 454; Poth. Oblig. by Evans, vol. 2, page 3; Gow on Partn. 8; Wats. Partn. 131. Partnerships are not confined to mere commercial trade or business; but generally extend to, manufactures and, to all other lawful occupations and employments, or to professional or other business. They may extend to all the business of the parties; to a single branch of such business; to a single adventure; or to a single thing. But there cannot lawfully be a partnership in a mere, personal office, especially when it is of a public nature, requiring the personal confidence in the skill and integrity of the officer. Story, Partn. Sec. 81; Colly. Partn. 31.
Partnership (n.) Partnerships may be formed to last for life, or for a specific period of time; they may be conditional or indefinite in their duration, or for a single adventure or dealing; this depends altogether on the will of the parties. The period of duration is either expressed or implied, but the law will not presume that it shall last beyond life. 1 Swanst. 521; 1 J. Wils. R., 181. When a particular term is fixed, it is presumed to endure until the period has elapsed; when no term is fixed, it is presumed to endure for the life of the parties, unless previously dissolved, by the acts of one of them, by mutual consent, or by operation of law. Story, Partn. Sec. 84. When no time is limited for the duration of a general trading partnership, it is a partnership at will, and may be dissolved at any time at the pleasure of any one or more of the partners.
Partnership (n.) A partnership may be dissolved in several ways: when the partnership is formed for a single dealing or transaction, it follows that it is at an end so soon as the dealing or transaction in which the partners jointly engaged is completed. Gow on Partn. 268; Inst. Lib. 3, tit., 26, s. 6.
Partnership (n.) Where a general partnership is formed, either for a definite, or an indefinite period of time, the causes which may operate a destruction of it, are various. In the case of a partnership limited as to its duration, it may, in the intermediate time, before the restricted period of its termination arrives, be dissolved either by the death, the confirmed insanity, the bankruptcy of all or one of the partners, or it may endure the stipulated period, and expire with the effluxion of time; but where the partnership is unlimited as to its existence, although in the instances of death or bankruptcy, it is determined, yet if they do not intervene, any partner may withdraw himself from it whenever he thinks proper. Code, lib. 4, t. 37, 1, 5.
Partnership (n.) Besides the causes above stated for a dissolution, a partnership, limited or unlimited as to its duration, may be dissolved by the decree of a court of equity, where the conduct of some or all of the partners has been such as not to carry on the trade or undertaking on the terms stipulated; Gow on Partn. 269; or by the involuntary or compulsory, sale or transfer of the partnership interest of any one of the partners. 17 John. R. 525.
Partnership (n.) In New York, it has been held that there is no such thing as an indissoluble partnership, and that, therefore, any partner may withdraw at any time; and by that act the partnership will be solved; the other party having his action against the withdrawing partner upon his covenant to continue the partnership; 19 Johns. R. 538. This doctrine is not in accordance with the English law. Indeed it is even doubtful in New York. Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 668; Story, Partn. Sec. 275; 3 Kent Com. 61, 4th ed.; 1 Hoffm. Ch. R. 534. See Gow on Partn. 803, 305, and 4 Wash. C. C. R. 232.
Partnership (n.) It may also be dissolved by the extinction of the thing or object of the partnership; or by the agreement of the parties. See Civ. Code of Louis. art. 2847 Code Civ. B. 3, fit. 9, c 4 art. 1865 to 1872; 2 Bell's Com. 631 to 6414, 6th ed. See Dissolution.
Partnership (n.) The effect of the dissolution of the partnership is to disable any one of the partners from contracting new obligations or engagements on account of the firm. 1 Pet., R. 351; 3 McCord, 378; 4 Munf. 215; 2 John., 300; 5 Mason, 56; Harper, R. 470; 4 John. 224; 1 McCord, 338; 6 Cowen, 701. But notwithstanding the dissolution there remain, with each of the partners, certain powers, rights, duties, authorities, and relations between them, which are indispensable to the complete arrangement and final settlement of the affairs of the firm. The partnership must, therefore, subsist for many purposes, notwithstanding the dissolution. Among these are, 1st. The completion of an the unperformed engagements of the partnership. 2d. The conversion of all the property, means and assets of the partnership, existing at the time of the dissolution, for the benefit of those who, were partners, according to their respective shares. 3d. The application of the partnership funds, to, the liquidation of the partnership debts. Story, Partn. Sec. 324.
Partnership (n.) By the laws of Louisiana, partnerships are divided, as to their object, into commercial partnerships and ordinary partnerships Commercial partnerships are such as are formed, 1. For the purchase of any personal property, and the sale thereof, either in the same state or changed by manufacture. 2. For buying and selling any personal property whatsoever, as factors or brokers. 3. For carrying personal property for hire, in ships or other vessels. Civ. Code of Lo. art., 2796.
Partnership (n.) Ordinary partnerships are, such as are not commercial; they are divided into universal or particular partnerships. Id. art. 2797.
Partnership (n.) Universal partnership is a contract by which the parties agree to make a common stock of all the property they respectively possess; they may extend it to all the property real and personal, or restrict it to personal only; they may, as, in other partnerships, agree that the property itself shall be common stock, or that the fruits only shall be such; but property which may accrue to one of the parties, after entering into the partnership, by donation, succession, or legacy, does not become common stock, and any stipulation to that effect, previous to the obtaining the property aforesaid, is void. Code Civ. of Lo.art. 2800.
Partnership (n.) Particular partnerships are such as are formed for any business not of a commercial nature. Id. art. 2806. The business of this partnership must be conducted in the name of all the persons concerned, unless a firm is adopted by the articles of partnership reduced to writing, and recorded as is prescribed with respect to partnerships in commendam. Id. art 2808.
Partnership (n.) There is also a species of partnership which may be incorporated with either of the other kinds, called partnership in commendam, or limited partnership. Id. art. 799. Partnership in commendam is formed by a contract, by which one person or partnership agrees to furnish another person or partnership a certain amount, either in property or money, to be employed by the person or partnership whom it is furnished, in his or their own name or firm, on condition of receiving a share in the profits, in the proportion determined by the contract, and of being liable to losses and expenses to the amount furnished, and no more. Id. art. 2810.
Partnership (n.) Every species of partnership may receive such partners. It is therefore a modification of which the several kinds of partnerships are susceptible, rather than a separate division of partnerships. Vide Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.: Firm.
Partnership (n.) (B2) [ C or U ] 合夥關係，夥伴關係 The state of being a partner.
Partnership (n.) [ C ] 合夥企業，合股公司 A company that is owned by two or more people.
// The John Lewis Partnership.
Partook () imp. of Partake.
Partridge (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.
Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. -- Chaucer.
Note: The common European, or gray, partridge ({Perdix cinerea) and the red-legged partridge ({Caccabis rubra) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known species.
Partridge (n.) Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera. [U.S.]
Note: Among them are the bobwhite ({Colinus Virginianus) of the Eastern States; the plumed, or mountain, partridge ({Oreortyx pictus) of California; the Massena partridge ({Cyrtonyx Montezum[ae]); and the California partridge ({Callipepla Californica).
Partridge (n.) The ruffed grouse ({Bonasa umbellus). [New Eng.]
Bamboo partridge (Zool.), A spurred partridge of the genus Bambusicola. Several species are found in China and the East Indies.
Night partridge (Zool.), The woodcock. [Local, U.S.]
Painted partridge (Zool.), A francolin of South Africa ({Francolinus pictus).
Partridge berry. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant ({Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiace[ae], having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself.
Partridge berry. (Bot.) (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen ({Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself.
Partridge dove (Zool.) Same as Mountain witch, under Mountain.
Partridge pea (Bot.), A yellow-flowered leguminous herb ({Cassia Cham[ae]crista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States.
Partridge shell (Zool.), A large marine univalve shell ({Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge.
Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called also pheasant wood.
Partridge wood (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles.
Sea partridge (Zool.), An Asiatic sand partridge ({Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note.
Snow partridge (Zool.), A large spurred partridge ({Lerwa nivicola) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia; called also jermoonal.
Spruce partridge. See under Spruce.
Wood partridge, or Hill partridge (Zool.), Any small Asiatic partridge of the genus Arboricola.
Partridge (n.) Flesh of either quail or grouse.
Partridge (n.) Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds [syn: tinamou, partridge].
Partridge (n.) Small Old World gallinaceous game birds.
Partridge (n.) A popular North American game bird; named for its call [syn: bobwhite, bobwhite quail, partridge].
Partridge (n.) Valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada [syn: ruffed grouse, partridge, Bonasa umbellus].
Partridge, () (Heb. kore, i.e., "caller"). This bird, unlike our own partridge, is distinguished by "its ringing call-note, which in early morning echoes from cliff to cliff amidst the barrenness of the wilderness of Judea and the glens of the forest of Carmel" hence its Hebrew name. This name occurs only twice in Scripture.
In 1 Sam. 26:20 "David alludes to the mode of chase practised now, as of old, when the partridge, continuously chased, was at length, when fatigued, knocked down by sticks thrown along the ground." It endeavours to save itself "by running, in preference to flight, unless when suddenly started. It is not an inhabitant of the plain or the corn-field, but of rocky hill-sides" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.).
In Jer. 17:11 the prophet is illustrating the fact that riches unlawfully acquired are precarious and short-lived. The exact nature of the illustration cannot be precisely determined. Some interpret the words as meaning that the covetous man will be as surely disappointed as the partridge which gathers in eggs, not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them; others (Tristram), with more probability, as denoting that the man who enriches himself by unjust means "will as surely be disappointed as the partridge which commences to sit, but is speedily robbed of her hopes of a brood" by her eggs being stolen away from her.
The commonest partridge in Palestine is the Caccabis saxatilis, the Greek partridge. The partridge of the wilderness (Ammo-perdix heyi) is a smaller species. Both are essentially mountain and rock birds, thus differing from the English partridge, which loves cultivated fields.
Partridge, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 259
Housing Units (2000): 106
Land area (2000): 0.465275 sq. miles (1.205057 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.465275 sq. miles (1.205057 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54700
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.967308 N, 98.091511 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67566
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Parture (n.) Departure. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Parturiate (v. i.) To bring forth young. [Obs.]
Parturiency (n.) Parturition.
Parturiency (n.) Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed].
Parturient (a.) Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. -- Jer. Taylor.
Parturient (a.) Of or relating to or giving birth; "parturient pangs"; "the parturient uterus."
Parturient (a.) Giving birth; "a parturient heifer."
Parturifacient (n.) (Med.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. --Dunglison.
Parturious (a.) Parturient. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Parturition (n.) The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
Parturition (n.) That which is brought forth; a birth. [Obs.]
Parturition (n.) The process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing].
Parturitive (a.) Pertaining to parturition; obstetric. [R.]
Parties (n. pl. ) of Party.
Party (n.) A part or portion. [Obs.] "The most party of the time." -- Chaucer.
Party (n.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
Win the noble Brutus to our party. -- Shak.
The peace both parties want is like to last. -- Dryden.
Party (n.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
Party (n.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
Party (n.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
Party (n.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. -- Ex. xxii. 9.
Party (n.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony. -- Sir J. Davies.
Party (n.) Cause; side; interest.
Have you nothing said Upon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany? -- Shak.
Party (n.) A person; as, he is a queer party. [Now accounted a vulgarism.]
Note: "For several generations, our ancestors largely employed party for person; but this use of the word, when it appeared to be reviving, happened to strike, more particularly, the fancy of the vulgar; and the consequence has been, that the polite have chosen to leave it in their undisputed possession." -- Fitzed. Hall.
Party jury (Law), A jury composed of different parties, as one which is half natives and half foreigners.
Party man, A partisan. -- Swift.
Party spirit, A factious and unreasonable temper, not uncommonly shown by party men. -- Whately.
Party verdict, A joint verdict. -- Shak.
Party wall. (a) (Arch.) A wall built upon the dividing line between two adjoining properties, usually having half its thickness on each property.
Party wall. (b) (Law) A wall that separates adjoining houses, as in a block or row.
Party (a.) (Her.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
Party (a.) Partial; favoring one party ; partisan.
I will be true judge, and not party. -- Chaucer.
Charter party. See under Charter.
Party (adv.) Partly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Party (n.) An organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level" [syn: party, political party].
Party (n.) A group of people gathered together for pleasure; "she joined the party after dinner."
Party (n.) A band of people associated temporarily in some activity; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen" [syn: party, company].
Party (n.) An occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment; "he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day."
Party (n.) A person involved in legal proceedings; "the party of the first part."
Party (v.) Have or participate in a party; "The students were partying all night before the exam."
Party, () practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Vide Parties to contracts; Parties to 'actions; Parties to a suit in equity.
Party-coated (a.) Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. -- Shak. Party-colored
Party-colored (a.) Alt. of Parti-colored.
Parti-colored (a.) Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." -- Shak.
Partyism (n.) Devotion to party.
Parumbilical (a.) (Anat.) Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
Parusia (n.) (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.
Parvanimity (n.) The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity. -- De Quincey.
Parvenu (n.) An upstart; a man newly risen into notice. Parvis
Parvenu (a.) Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position [syn: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a)].
Parvenu (a.) Of or characteristic of a parvenu [syn: parvenu, parvenue].
Parvenu (n.) A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class [syn: upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche, arriviste].
Parvis (n.) Alt. of Parvise.
Parvise (n.) A court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers. -- Chaucer. Parvitude
Parvis (n.) A courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral).
Parvitude (n.) Alt. of Parvity.
Parvity (n.) Littleness. [Obs.] -- Glanvill. Ray.
Parvolin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.
Parvoline (n.) (Chem.) A liquid base, C9H13N, of the pyridine group, found in coal tar; also, any one of the series of isomeric substances of which it is the type.
Pas (n.) A pace; a step, as in a dance. -- Chaucer.
Pas (n.) Right of going foremost; precedence. -- Arbuthnot.
Pas (n.) (Ballet) A step in dancing (especially in classical ballet).
PAS, () Publicly Available Specifications (ISO)
PASS. () In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given by the master or mistress to a slave, in which it is stated that he is permitted to leave his home, with the authority of his master or mistress. The paper on which such certificate is written is also called a pass.
Pasan (n.) (Zool.) The gemsbok. Pasch