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.

Part, v. i. 1. To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break;

to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in

the middle.

2. To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to

die; -- often with from.

He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

Shak.

He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before.

Macaulay.

His precious bag, which he would by no means part from.

G. Eliot.

3. To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any

kind; -- followed by with or from.

Celia, for thy sake, I part With all that grew so near my heart.

Waller.

Powerful hands . . . will not part Easily from possession won with

arms.

Milton.

It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at

parting with an only son.

A. Trollope.

4. To have a part or share; to partake. [Obs.] "They shall part alike."

1 Sam. xxx. 24.

Part, adv. Partly; in a measure. [R.] Shak.

Part"a*ble (?), a. See Partible. Camden.

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