資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.