Partition, 1) division: “like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in p.” Mids. III, 2, 210.
2) distinction: “and good from bad find no p.” H4B IV, 1, 196. “and can we not p. make 'twixt fair and foul?” Cymb. I, 6, 37.
3) a party-wall: “it is the wittiest p. that ever I heard discourse,” Mids. V, 168.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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