Parting

·noun A separation; a leave-taking.

II. Parting ·v Departing.

III. Parting ·v Admitting of being parted; partible.

IV. Parting ·noun A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

V. Parting ·v Serving to part; dividing; separating.

VI. Parting ·noun The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

VII. Parting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Part.

VIII. Parting ·noun A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.

IX. Parting ·v Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.

X. Parting ·noun The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

XI. Parting ·noun The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.

XII. Parting ·noun The separation and determination of alloys; ·esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

XIII. Parting ·noun Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.