Portion: alternatives and connections

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…

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The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.

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To distribute by lot.

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The act of allotting; assignment.

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The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just…

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Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or…

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The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.

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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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To distribute or assign; to allot.

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To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to app…

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Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

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A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

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To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

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The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.

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The act of allotting; assignment.

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Approval; approbation.

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Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

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An apparatus for weighing.

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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

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The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

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The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

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A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partiall…

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Alt. of But

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Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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of Cut

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Open the dictionary entry to review the exact meaning.

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A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts a…

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grief; sorrow; lamentation.

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To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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A stick with which a drum is beaten.

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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

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Weak; feeble.

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The strong point; that in which one excels.

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The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.

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To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

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The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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Also; as an additional article.

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Alt. of Jetson

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The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liqu…

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A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

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The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.

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A large medal or memorial coin.

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To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

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Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

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The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

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Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts,…

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Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual…

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A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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To appoint.

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of Press

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The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.

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A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.

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Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

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Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.

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That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

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That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

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To arrest.

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To whisper.

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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange;…

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See Chank.

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A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

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A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

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A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support…

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The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a…

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

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One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.

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A single thing or person.

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Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

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That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.

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Away.

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One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…

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The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.

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Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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A part; a fragment; a portion.

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To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or o…

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The act of taking food.

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A single thing or person.

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Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar s…

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As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.

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To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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To distribute by lot.

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To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

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That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

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See Dower.

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A gift; endowment.

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A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence…

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The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determinin…

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That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…

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A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

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The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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