Party

·v A part or portion.

II. Party ·v Cause; side; interest.

III. Party ·v Partial; favoring one party.

IV. Party ·adv Partly.

V. Party ·v A person; as, he is a queer party.

VI. Party ·v Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

VII. Party ·v The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.

VIII. Party ·v Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

IX. Party ·v A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.

X. Party ·v 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.

XI. Party ·v 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.

XII. Party ·v 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.