Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Parted"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Parted \Part"ed\, a.
1. Separated; devided.

2. Endowed with parts or abilities. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

3. (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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Part \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.]
1. 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.

There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues.
--Keble.

2. To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot;
to apportion; to share.

To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee.
--Pope.

They parted my raiment among them. --John xix.
24.

3. To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove
from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but
death part thee and me. --Ruth i. 17.

While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and
carried up into heaven. --Luke xxiv.
51.

The narrow seas that part The French and English.
--Shak.

4. Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene
betwixt, as combatants.

The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
--Shak.

5. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or
secretion; as, to part gold from silver.

The liver minds his own affair, . . . And parts and
strains the vital juices. --Prior.

6. To leave; to quit. [Obs.]

Since presently your souls must part your bodies.
--Shak.

{To part a cable} (Naut.), to break it.

{To part company}, to separate, as travelers or companions.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

parted
adj : having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create
distinct divisions or lobes


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