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▪ I. parting, vbl. n.|ˈpɑːtɪŋ|
[f. part v. + ing1.]
The action of the verb part, partition; the result, or place, of this action; something that parts.
1. a. The action of dividing or fact of undergoing division into parts; division, breaking, cleaving: see part v. 1, 2.
1530Palsgr. 252/1 Partyng of any thyng, partaige. 1555Adamo (title) An Anatomi, that is to say a parting in peeces of the Mass. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. iii. 146 There being great danger of the ship's parting. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Parting..(Nautical.) Breaking cable, leaving the anchor in the ground.
b. The division or dividing line of the hair when combed: see part v. 1 c.
1698Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i, Does the parting of my fore-top show so thin? 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. i. i. (1864) 6 Smoothing the parting of the glossy brown hair on her well-shaped head. 1887J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 193 My hair is getting thin,..Old Time has made my parting wide, And sunk my hopes to zero.
2. a. (a) The action of separating or putting asunder, or fact of being separated; separation. (b) spec. in technical uses: see part v. 4 c. parting off: the separation of a piece from a longer length (cf. part v. 4 c (d)). Freq. attrib.
c1315Shoreham Poems (E.E.T.S.) 66/1855 Ȝef he by wyl serueþ þat flesch, Ryȝt partyng worthe hym none. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1803 Dede es noght elles..Bot a partyng of þe saul and body. c1440Promp. Parv. 385/1 Partynge a-sundyr.., separacio. 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Parting, is one of the Refiner's ways to separate Gold and Silver. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1059 In parting by nitric acid, the gold generally retains a little silver. 1879H. Northcott in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 71/2 Tools..chiefly for ‘parting’, or cutting off pieces of work from the main cylinder or log. 1905J. Horner Tools for Engineers & Woodworkers v. 60 Tools for parting off..have clearance both behind and below. Being generally very thin at the cutting end, this is commonly reduced from a bar of greater width, in order to afford sufficient width and rigidity for clamping in the tool-holder. 1923C. M. Linley Lathe Users' Handbk. v. 88 In capstan work where parting-off tools are in continual use..I have used milling cutters or slitting saws as tools with great success. 1950C. T. Bower in A. W. Judge Machine Tools & Operations II. viii. 186 The parting-off saw shown..has been evolved for cutting off non-ferrous extrusions or bars up to 4 in. by 2½ in. deep. 1977C. R. Shotbolt Technician Workshop Processes & Materials I. vii. 84/1 The draw tube and the back end of the collet are hollow to permit bars to be fed through the spindle for repetition turning and parting-off of workpieces.
b. (a) That part in which separation is realized; the place at which two or more things separate or are separated: as the parting of the ways, the place or part at which a road divides into two or more that proceed in different directions (often fig. in reference to a choice between courses of action); water-parting, the line separating two river-systems, a watershed. (b) spec. in Founding, the division or meeting-surface of two parts of a mould (see also c).
c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxxv, Whan he is passed þe partynge of þe quarter and entered into a newe quarter, he shulde blowe iii. moot and seke forth. 1611Bible Ezek. xxi. 21 The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, to vse diuination. 1869Lowell Parting of the Ways i, Who hath not..Stood doubtful at the Parting of the Ways? 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1460/1 An exact parting is now made with the trowel along the median line, if the casting be symmetrical. Ibid. 1634/2 Parting..4. (Founding.) The meeting surfaces of the sand rammed up in the cope and in the drag. 1888Pall Mall G. 20 Dec. 5/2 Take the Nile valley and the water partings on each side from Berber. 1897Marquis of Salisbury Sp. Ho. Lords 19 Jan., For the difficulties in which we find ourselves now, the parting of the ways was in 1853, when the Emperor Nicholas's proposals were rejected.
c. concr. Something that parts or separates two things; esp. in technical uses, as (a) Mining and Geol. A layer of rock, clay, etc. lying between two beds of different formations; (b) Founding. Fine sand (parting-sand) or other powdery substance used to prevent adhesion of the surfaces of the parts of a mould (cf. b).
1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 23 A sort of bad foul Air, or Fume exhaling out of some Minerals, or partings of Stone. 1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxxv. 466 The laminae..are occasionally marked by very thin carbonaceous partings. 1874J. H. Collins Metal Mining (1875) 67 The partings of the shafts consist of strong beams of wood..longitudinal timbers are nailed to these so as to form the shaft parting. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1461/2 The charcoal-dust of the black-wash acts as a parting.
3. a. Mutual separation of two or more persons; esp. the action of quitting one another's company; leave-taking.
c1330Amis & Amil. 325 Gret sorwe thai made at her parting. c1410Love Bonavent. Mirr. xlviii. (Gibbs MS.) lf. 101 A my dere sone a byttre partynge was thys. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 186 Good night, good night, Parting is such sweete sorrow, That I shall say good night, till it be morrow. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 1003. 1773 Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 20 Mar., The last parting is very afflictive. 1875Jowett Plato I. 70, I said..a few words to the boys at parting.
b. With with: see part v. 6 c.
1620Barret Ded. Southwell's Poems 149 To purchase it by parting with their Armes. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 482 The parting with a beloved Child is at any time an Affliction. 1804M. Edgeworth Ennui xxi, The parting with a watch and some other trinkets..enabled me to pay this money.
4. The action of going away or setting out, departure; also fig. (euphem.) Decease, death. arch.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 684 He droȝ forþ a riche ring His moder him ȝaf at his parting. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vii. 57 Her pardoun is ful petit at her partyng hennes. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xiv. 37 He shal be purueied bifore his partyng. 1603Jas. I in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 78 My sonne, that I see you not before my pairting impute it to this great occasion. 1656Heylin Extraneus Vapulans 64 To let him know, that the Company was upon the parting. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. ii, Nothing troubled me at my parting from the island. 1857Heavysege Saul (1869) 194 Who can, at parting, picture his return?
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a. Division into shares; division among a number, distribution; the giving of a share to another, imparting. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 342 Chesyng of cardenalis, & parting of beneficis. c1440Promp. Parv. 385/1 Partynge, or delynge, particio, distribucio. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 80 b, They fell out about the partyng.
†b. The taking or having of a share; sharing, participation. Obs.
1382Wyclif 2 Cor. vi. 14 Sothli what partynge [gloss or comunynge] of riȝtwysnesse with wickidnesse?
†6. The action of taking parts or sides. Obs.
1652W. Brough Sacr. Princ., Preserv. agst. Schisme 31 With them there will be Siding and Parting. There cannot be Unity and Order.
7. attrib. and Comb.
a. attrib. Of or pertaining to parting, i.e. leave-taking, departure, or (euphem.) death; esp. (in adjectival construction) Given, taken, performed, etc. at parting; ‘farewell’, concluding, final; esp. parting shot (cf. Parthian shot s.v. Parthian a.). (See also parting-cup.)
1592Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 219 Thus much I must say for a parting blow. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. iii. 34 Ere I could Giue him that parting kisse. 1646Crashaw Steps to Temple 77 Hark! she is call'd, the parting hour is come. 1779Sheridan Critic ii. ii, If you go out without the parting look you might as well dance out. 1794Southey Frederic 6 That deep cry..seems to sound My parting knell. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 266 This seems to be indicated by his parting words. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 75 With this parting shot..Nancy flung into the house. 1898F. Montgomery Tony 19 Forgetful of his mother's parting injunctions. 1906Galsworthy Man of Property iii. ix. 372 He could not resist a parting shot. ‘H'mm! All flourishing at home? Any little Soameses yet?’ 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound iii. 67 Dasiga..finally left with a parting-shot of ‘unintelligible gibberish’. 1962P. Van Greenaway Crucified City xiii. 136 Still Creston permitted himself a parting shot. ‘I suppose we're going through the whole farce again?’ 1963Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 8/6 It was also something of a parting shot, following a 100 yards victory in 9·9 sec. 1967T. Stoppard Rosencrantz & Guildenstern ii. 57 He smiles briefly at them without mirth, and starts to back out, his parting shot rising again.
b. Of or pertaining to parting or separation, as ˈparting-ˌpoint; esp. in names of various technical appliances used for separating something, etc., as parting-assay (see quot. and assay n. 6); parting-bead = parting-strip; parting-glass, a glass flask used in ‘parting’ gold and silver (see part v. 4 c (a)), esp. in assaying; parting-line (Founding), the line in which the ‘parting’ of a mould (see 2 b (b)) meets the surface of a pattern as it lies in the mould; parting-rail (see quot.); parting-sand (Founding), fine dry sand, free from admixture of clay, used to prevent adhesion of the parts of a mould at the ‘parting’ (see 2 b (b)); parting-shard (Pottery Manuf.), a thin piece of baked clay placed between pieces of unbaked ware to prevent adhesion; parting-strip, a strip of material used for separating two parts, e.g. the vertical strip of wood inserted at the side of the frame of a sash window to keep the sashes apart when raised or lowered; parting-tool, name of various tools used in different kinds of work for separating pieces of material, or for trimming, cutting fine outlines and markings, etc.; † parting water, nitric acid as used in ‘parting’ gold and silver (obs.).
In some of these, e.g. parting bead, rail, shard, strip, the attrib. use of the vbl. n. can hardly be separated from that of the ppl. adj. (see next). Thus a parting strip may be viewed either as a strip used for parting, or as a strip that parts. When the hyphen is used, the former is implied: cf. a walking-stick, a walking leaf.
1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 56 This method..is called the *Parting Assay.
1842–76Gwilt Archit. Gloss., *Parting Bead, the beaded slip inserted at the centre of the pulley style of a sash window, to keep the two sashes in their places.
1885Lock Workshop Rec. IV. 349/1 The washing may be performed in one of the conical precipitating or ‘*parting’ flasks.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 79 Water in a *parting glasse vpon warme imbers. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 766 Parting glasses..ought to be very well annealed, and chosen free from flaws.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1460/1 The *parting-line is..that line upon the pattern, as it lies in the sand, above and below which the sides of the pattern run inward from the perpendicular.
1835in Liddon etc. Life Pusey (1894) I. xv. 350 Mr. Maurice..made up his mind that it represented the *parting-point between him and the Oxford School.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Parting Rail... A rail intermediate between the bottom and top rails of a door or partition.
1864Webster, *Parting sand. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1460/1 Some dry parting-sand is next scattered over the surface.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 123 Haveing only *parting-shards, i.e. thin bits of old pots put between them, to keep them from sticking together.
1881Young Ev. Man his own Mechanic §648. 297 The *parting-tool is a sort of gouge or grooving tool, with an angular edge. 1895Mod. Steam Eng. 90 Side tools to cut at the side, Parting tools, narrow and sharp for parting work.
1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass xxxviii. 62 (heading) How to make Aqua-fortis call'd *parting water, which dissolves silver and quick-silver.
▪ II. parting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That parts (in various senses of the verb).
(See also prec. 7 b.)
1. Separating, dividing; forming a boundary or interval between two things.
1699Boston Rec. (1881) VII. 233 The gate in the parting line between Mr. Winthrops land and Major Townsends farm. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xi. 121 The Parting Space is that Distance which the Drill leaves betwixt the Row it plants in going one Way, and that Row which it makes in returning back. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 239 Occasionally there is a parting layer of pure flint.
2. Undergoing division; dividing, breaking, going to pieces.
1719S. Sewall Diary 14 Dec., At the parting way came up with Col. Quincey. 1736Gray Statius ii. 21 Parting surges round the vessel roar. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 511 The parting ship that instant is no more!
3. Going away, departing; fig. dying.
a1577Gascoigne In praise Gentlewoman Wks. (1587) 284 And she to quyte hys loue..dyd yeeld her parting breath. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. v. 115 And Peace, no Warre, befall thy parting Soule. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 276 Both by thee informd I learne, And from the parting Angel over⁓heard. 1750Gray Elegy i, The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 127 To fortify the parting soul.
†4. Sharing, participating; parting fellow, sharer, partner: = parti-fellow. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 206 If pacience be owre partyng felawe, And pryue with vs bothe. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋563 Thise scorneres been partyng felawes with the deuel. 1514Will of Stanyng (Somerset Ho.), Partyng feloo. |