1. (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhausted are participles.

2. (a.) Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.

adjectival adjective adverb adverbial adversative conjunction attributive conjunction conjunctive adverb coordinating conjunction copulative copulative conjunction correlative conjunction disjunctive disjunctive conjunction exclamatory noun form class form word function class gerundive interjection part of speech particle past participle perfect participle preposition present participle subordinating conjunction verbal adjective