[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

part \part\ paumrt, v. t. imp.  p. p. parted; p. pr. 
   vb. n. parting. f. partir, l. partire, partiri, p. p.
   partitus, fr. pars, gen. partis, a part. see part, n.
   1913 webster
   1. to divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into
      two or more parts or pieces; to sever. "thou shalt part it
      in pieces." --lev. ii. 6.
      1913 webster

            there, celestial love parted into rainbow hues.
                                                  --keble.
      1913 webster

   2. to divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot;
      to apportion; to share.
      1913 webster

            to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

            they parted my raiment among them.    --john xix.
                                                  24.
      1913 webster

   3. to separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove
      from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
      1913 webster

            the lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but
            death part thee and me.               --ruth i. 17.
      1913 webster

            while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and
            carried up into heaven.               --luke xxiv.
                                                  51.
      1913 webster

            the narrow seas that part
            the french and english.               --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. hence: to hold apart; to stand between; to intervene
      betwixt, as combatants.
      1913 webster

            the stumbling night did part our weary powers.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. to separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or
      secretion; as, to part gold from silver.
      1913 webster

            the liver minds his own affair, . . .
            and parts and strains the vital juices. --prior.
      1913 webster

   6. to leave; to quit. obs.
      1913 webster

            since presently your souls must part your bodies.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. to separate a collection of objects into smaller
      collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle.
      pjc

   to part a cable naut., to break it.

   to part company, to separate, as travelers or companions.
      1913 webster
see also:
parted parting part to part a cable to part company 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

parting \par"ting\ paumrt"i^ng, a. from part, v.
   1. serving to part; dividing; separating.
      1913 webster

   2. given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting
      salute. "give him that parting kiss." --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. departing. "speed the parting guest." --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. admitting of being parted; partible.
      1913 webster

   parting fellow, a partner. obs. --chaucer.

   parting pulley. see under pulley.

   parting sand founding, dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled
      upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation.
      

   parting strip arch., in a sash window, one of the thin
      strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the
      sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window
      box to separate the weights.

   parting tool mach., a thin tool, used in turning or
      planing, for cutting a piece in two.
      1913 webster
see also:
part parting fellow parting pulley pulley parting sand parting strip 
parting tool 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

parting \par"ting\ paumrt"i^ng, n.
   1. the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted;
      division; separation. "the parting of the way." --ezek.
      xxi. 21.
      1913 webster

   2. a separation; a leave-taking. --shak.
      1913 webster

            and there were sudden partings, such as press
            the life from out young hearts.       --byron.
      1913 webster

   3. a surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
      1913 webster

   4. founding the surface of the sand of one section of a
      mold where it meets that of another section.
      1913 webster

   5. chem. the separation and determination of alloys; esp.,
      the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the
      assay button.
      1913 webster

   6. geol. a joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
      1913 webster

   7. naut. the breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
      1913 webster

   8. min. lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due
      to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of
      twinning lamellae.
      1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

parting
     adj : delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or
           retreat; "paused to deliver a parting shot at the
           door"; "a parthian volley of expletives from uncle
           billy"- bret harte syn: parthian
     n : the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells";
         "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" syn:
          farewell, leave, leave-taking
see also:
parthian farewell leave leave-taking 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

141 moby thesaurus words for "parting":
   godspeed, abandonment, abstraction, adieu, alienation, aloha,
   annihilation, bane, biological death, breaking up, breakup,
   cessation of life, cleaving, clinical death, closing, concluding,
   conge, crossing the bar, curtains, deactivation, death,
   death knell, deathbed, debt of nature, decampment, decease, demise,
   demobilization, departing, departure, detachment, diaspora,
   disarticulation, disassociation, disbandment, disconnectedness,
   disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disintegration,
   disjointing, disjunction, disjunctive, dislocation, dismissal,
   disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, dissolution, disunion,
   dividing, division, divorce, divorcement, doch-an-dorrach, doom,
   dying, ebb of life, egress, end, end of life, ending, escape,
   eternal rest, evacuation, exit, exodus, expiration, extinction,
   extinguishment, farewell, final, final summons, finger of death,
   flight, getaway, going, going off, good-bye, grave, hand of death,
   hegira, incoherence, isolation, jaws of death, knell, last,
   last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leave,
   leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loss of life, luxation,
   making an end, outward-bound, parting words, partition, passing,
   passing away, passing over, perishing, quietus, release, removal,
   rest, retirement, retreat, reward, rift, rupture, segmentation,
   send-off, sentence of death, separating, separation, separatism,
   separative, shades of death, shadow of death, sleep, somatic death,
   split, split-up, splitting, stirrup cup, subdivision, subtraction,
   summons of death, valediction, valedictorian, valedictory,
   valedictory address, viaticum, walkout, withdrawal, zoning

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