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- Party - v. - A part or portion.
- 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.
- Party - v. - A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
- 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.
- 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.
- Party - v. - The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
- Party - v. - Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
- Party - v. - Cause; side; interest.
- Party - v. - A person; as, he is a queer party.
- Party - v. - Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
- Party - v. - Partial; favoring one party.
- Party - adv. - Partly.
- Party-coated - a. - Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.
- Party-colored - a. - Alt. of Parti-colored
- Partyism - n. - Devotion to party.
- Certiorari - n. - A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.
- Politicalism - n. - Zeal or party spirit in politics.
- Traverse - a. - To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
- Proposal - n. - The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
- Traverse - a. - A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
- Spoilsmonger - n. - One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
- Mugwump - n. - A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent.
- Barleybreak - n. - An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
- Injunction - n. - A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
- Tory - n. - A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.
- Dishonor - n. - The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.
- Kettledrum - n. - An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.
- Bargainee - v. i. - The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.
- Caveat - n. - A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
- Sociable - n. - A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
- Count - v. i. - To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
- Stripe - n. - Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
- Arrestment - n. - The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.
- Gerrymander - v. t. - To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent.
- Insurance - n. - The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.
- Policy - n. - The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.
- Answer - n. - A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
- Pair - n. - Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
- Appear - v. i. - To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
- Partial - n. - Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.
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- H679 אַצִּיל - 679 אַצִּיל - אַצִּיל - - ʼatstsîyl - ats-tseel' - from אָצַל (in its primary sense of uniting); a joint of the hand (i.e. knuckle); also (according to some) a party-wall (Ezekiel 41:8); (arm) hole, great. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H340 אָיַב - 340 אָיַב - אָיַב - - ʼâyab - aw-yab' - a primitive root; to hate (as one of an opposite tribe or party); hence to be hostile; be an enemy. - Verb - heb
- G592 ἀποδιορίζω - 592 ἀποδιορίζω - ἈΠΟΔΙΟΡΊΖΩ - - apodiorízō - ap-od-ee-or-id'-zo - from ἀπό and a compound of διά and ὁρίζω; to disjoin (by a boundary, figuratively, a party):--separate. - Verb - greek
- G139 αἵρεσις - 139 αἵρεσις - ΑἽΡΕΣΙΣ - - haíresis - hah'-ee-res-is - from αἱρέομαι; properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion:--heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G2828 κλισία - 2828 κλισία - ΚΛΙΣΊΑ - - klisía - klee-see'-ah - from a derivative of κλίνω; properly, reclination, i.e. (concretely and specially), a party at a meal:--company. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G3098 Μαγώγ - 3098 Μαγώγ - ΜΑΓΏΓ - - Magṓg - mag-ogue' - of Hebrew origin (מָגוֹג); Magog, a foreign nation, i.e. (figuratively) an Antichristian party:--Magog. - Noun Location - greek
- H4931 מִשְׁמֶרֶת - 4931 מִשְׁמֶרֶת - מִשְׁמֶרֶת - - mishmereth - mish-mer'-reth - feminine of מִשְׁמָר; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party; charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G4272 προδίδωμι - 4272 προδίδωμι - ΠΡΟΔΊΔΩΜΙ - - prodídōmi - prod-id'-o-mee - from πρό and δίδωμι; to give before the other party has given:--first give. - Verb - greek
- G4849 συμπόσιον - 4849 συμπόσιον - ΣΥΜΠΌΣΙΟΝ - - sympósion - soom-pos'-ee-on - neuter of a derivative of the alternate of συμπίνω; a drinking-party ("symposium"), i.e. (by extension) a room of guests:--company. - Noun Neuter - greek