n. The act of separating Or dividing; separation.n. Agoing hence; death: sometimes hence-parting.n. In paper-making, the operation of separating the damp sheets.n. In metallurgy, the separation of gold and silver from each 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 process which has been in use for many centuries.n. In mineralogy, 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.n. 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 succession of cuts, the teeth of one comb being cut from the interdental spaces of the other.n. A point or place of separation or division.n. In geology, a thin seam of clay or shale separating the thicker beds of rock.n. In founding: The meeting surfaces of the sand rammed up in the cope and in the drag. Parting-sand.n. The division of the hair on the head in dressing it.n. That which parts or divides.n. Share; fellowship; participation.n.