By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an
adjectival aspect. --Earle.
Note: Present participles, called also imperfect, or
incomplete, participles, end in -ing. Past participles,
called also perfect, or complete, participles, for the
most part end in -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n. A participle
when used merely as an attribute of a noun, without
reference to time, is called an adjective, or a
participial adjective; as, a written constitution; a
rolling stone; the exhausted army. The verbal noun in
-ing has the form of the present participle. See
{Verbal noun}, under {Verbal}, a.
2. Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
[Obs.]
The participles or confines between plants and
living creatures. --Bacon.