Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PART, v.i.

1. To be separated, removed or detached. Powerful hands will not part / Easily from possession won with arms. – Milton.
2. To quit each other. He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. – Shak.
3. To take or bid farewell.
4. To have a share. – Swift. They shall part alike. – 1 Sam. xxx.
5. [Fr. partir.] To go away; to depart. Thy father / Embraced me, parting for th' Etrurian land. – Dryden.
6. To break; to be torn asunder. The cable parted. To part with, to quit; to resign; to lose; to be separated from; as, to part with near friends. Celia for thy sake I part / With all that grew so near my heart. – Waller.