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t. & i. [PARTNER, 8.] A. Trans.: To join as a partner. B. In trans.: To become a partner. "A lady who So fair, and fasten'd to an empery, Would make the great'st king double-to be partner'd With tomboys." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, i. 6. part-ner-ship, s. [Eng. partner; -ship.] 1. The state or condition of being a partner, a ociate, or participator with another; joint in terest. IMG:content-0705.png:[blocks in formation] divided between them in proportion to the amount of capital, stock, labor, ., supplied by each part ner. Partners are known as active when they take an active part in the conduct of the busine as principals; as silent when they do not take any active part, but are merely pa ive in the firm; and as nominal, when they allow their names to be used, and so are held out to the world as partners, although having no actual interest in the conduct of the busine or its profits. "Scarcely any member of a congregation of separatists entered into a partnership , married a daughter, put a son out as an apprentice, or gave his vote at an election."Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xi. 3. A rule in arithmetic the same as FELLOWSHIP, II.1 (q. v.). 4. ( Pl .): The two thick pieces of wood at the bottom of a mast. par-tridge, *par-triche, *par-tryche, *part ryke, *par-trys, *per-triche, *per-trik, subst . [Fr. perdrix , from Lat. perdicem , acc us. of perdix (q. v.).] 1. Ornithology: (1) Sing .. The genus Perdix, and espec. Perdix cinerea, the Common or Gray Partridge, a well. known game-bird widely distributed in Europe. General tone of plumage brown; neck and upper part of the breast, sides, and flanks bluish gray, freckled with dark gray, lower breast with a rich chestnut horseshoe-shaped patch on a ground of white; sides and flanks barred with chestnut; thighs grayish white; legs and toes bluish white, claws brown. Length of adult male about twelve inches. In Eastern Siberia it is replaced by Perdix barbata , the Bearded Partridge; and there is a closely allied species in Tibet, P. hodgsoniæ . The partridge prefers open grounds, and often nests in exposed situations. It feeds on slugs, caterpillars, and grubs to a large extent, and so compensates the farmer for the injury it does. (2) The sub-family Perdicine (q. v.). (3) In the United States any one of the several species belonging to the genus Colinus , including the bobwhite and other quail-like birds. *2. Ordn.: A large bombard formerly used in sieges and defensive works. 3. Script.: Heb. qore (1 Sam. xxvi. 20, and Jer. xvii. 11) is probably a partridge, though not the common species, which does not occur in Palestine. partridge-berry, s. Bot.: (1) Gualtheria procumbens ; (2) A popular name for Mitchell a. partridge-breeder, s. One who breeds or rears partridges for sale or sport. "These partridge - breeders of a you sand years." Tennyson: Aylmer's Field, 382. partridge-wood, s. Bot. & Comm.: Formerly thought to be the wood of Heister i a coccinea , an Olacad, but now believed to be derived from various West Indian and South American trees, specially Andira inerm is . It is beautifully variegated, and was formerly used in Brazil for shipbuilding. In dockyards it is called Cabbage-wood.