parting (parting)

[ And there were sudden partings , such as pre The life from out young hearts. Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 24. (bt) A going hence; death: sometimes hence-parting. Percen with a pater-noster the paleys of heuene, And pa en purgatorie pen a unce les at her hennes -partynge, In-to the bli e of paradys. Piers Plowman (B), x. 462. Would I were she! For such a way to die, and such a ble ing, Can never crown my parting . Beau . and Fl . , Thierry and Theodoret, iv. 1. (c) In paper - making , the operation of separating the damp sheets. (d) In metal ., the separation of gold and silver other by means of an acid. Both nitric and sulphuric acids are used for this purpose, the latter more generally; but parting by nitric acid is a proce which has been in use for many centuries. (e) In mineral ., a separation of a mineral into layers due not to cleavage, but to some other cause, as the presence of thin lamellæ, formed by twinning, as, for example, in pyroxene, titanite, etc. (f) In comb - making , a method by which, in order to save material, two combs are cut from a single piece of shell but little wider than a single comb. The cutter used has a vertical motion upon the blank, which has an intermittent feed beneath it, and receives a succe ion of cuts, the teeth of one comb being cut from the interdental spaces of the other. E. H. Knight. 2. A point or place of separation or division. The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. Ezek. xxi. 21. (a) In geol ., a thin seam of clay or shale separating the thicker beds of rock. (b) In founding : (1) The meeting surfaces of the sand rammed up in the cope and in the drag. (2) Parting-sand. 3. The division of the hair on the head in dre ing it. His hair was cut short on the top, and lay on the head without parting . Encyc . Brit ., VI. 455. 4. That which parts or divides.-5t. Share; fellowship; participation. For what parting of rightwysne e with wickidne e? Wyclif , 2 Cor. vi. 14. parting-cup (pär'ting-kup), n. 1. A drinking cup having two handles on opposite sides, as distinguished from lov ing- cup , which usually has more.-2. A kind of cup, made with new ale and sherry, sweetened, to which soda-water is added immediately before drinking. parting-fellowt (pär'ting-fel"ō), n. [ ME.partyng - felawe ; parting + fellow .] A partner. IMG:content-2400.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] A gla flask used in a aying for di olving silver from Parting-cup.- Old English pottery. its mixture with ith gold. parting-line (pärʼting-lin), n. In founding , a line upon pattern as it lies embedded in the upward, and above which the draw is downward. In most cases this line is undulatory; the surface as particulate.