PPage 105
- English Word Party Definition A part or portion.
- English Word Party Definition A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
- English Word Party Definition A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
- English Word Party Definition A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
- English Word Party Definition One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
- English Word Party Definition The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
- English Word Party Definition Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
- English Word Party Definition Cause; side; interest.
- English Word Party Definition A person; as, he is a queer party.
- English Word Party Definition Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
- English Word Party Definition Partial; favoring one party.
- English Word Party Definition Partly.
- English Word Party-coated Definition Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.
- English Word Party-colored Definition Alt. of Parti-colored
- English Word Partyism Definition Devotion to party.
- English Word Parumbilical Definition Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
- English Word Parusia Definition A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.
- English Word Parvanimity Definition The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity.
- English Word Parvenu Definition An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
- English Word Parvis Definition Alt. of Parvise