Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
Milton.
Let me bear My part of danger with an equal share.
Dryden.
4. Hence, specifically: (a) One of the opposing parties or sides in a
conflict or a controversy; a faction.
For he that is not against us is on our part.
Mark ix. 40.
Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
Waller.
(b) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed
personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a
character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To
act a part, under Act.
That part Was aptly fitted and naturally performed.
Shak.
It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf.
Shak.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there
all the honor lies.
Pope.
(c) (Mus.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition,
which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each
voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin
part, etc.
For my part, so far as concerns me; for my share. -- For the most part.
See under Most, a. -- In good part, as well done; favorably;
acceptably; in a friendly manner. Hooker. -- In ill part, unfavorably;
with displeasure. -- In part, in some degree; partly. -- Part and
parcel, an essential or constituent portion; -- a reduplicative phrase.
Cf. might and main, kith and kin, etc. "She was . . . part and parcel
of the race and place." Howitt. -- Part of speech (Gram.), a sort or
class of words of a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of
speech denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part of speech which
asserts something of the subject of a sentence. -- Part owner (Law),
one of several owners or tenants in common. See Joint tenant, under
Joint. -- Part singing, singing in which two or more of the harmonic
parts are taken. -- Part song, a song in two or more (commonly four)
distinct vocal parts. "A part song differs from a madrigal in its
exclusion of contrapuntual devices; from a glee, in its being sung by
many voices, instead of by one only, to each part." Stainer & Barrett.
Syn. -- Portion; section; division; fraction; fragment; piece; share;
constituent. See Portion, and Section.
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.