Tennyson.
2. Hence, specifically: (a) An equal constituent portion; one of
several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is
divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or
ingredient.
An homer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Ex. xvi. 36.
A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever
three parts coward.
Shak.
(b) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an
organ; an essential element.
All the parts were formed . . . into one harmonious body.
Locke.
The pulse, the glow of every part.
Keble.
(c) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent;
-- usually in the plural with a collective sense. "Men of considerable
parts." Burke. "Great quickness of parts." Macaulay.
Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not
admit any good part to intermingle with them.
Shak.
(d) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural. "The uttermost
part of the heaven." Neh. i. 9.
All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears.
Dryden.
(e) (Math.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain
number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of
12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a
geometrical figure.
3. That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which
falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot;
interest; concern; duty; office.
We have no part in David.