Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Particular \Par*tic"u*lar\, n.
   1. A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a
      whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or
      item, which may be considered separately; as, the
      particulars of a story.

            Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal.
                                                  --Bacon.

            It is the greatest interest of particulars to
            advance the good of the community.    --L'Estrange.

   2. Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character;
      individuality; interest, etc. [Obs.]

            For his particular I'll receive him gladly. --Shak.

            If the particulars of each person be considered.
                                                  --Milton.

            Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the
            public . . . or such as concern our particular.
                                                  --Whole Duty
                                                  of Man.

   3. (Law) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; --
      usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute
      account; as, a particular of premises.

            The reader has a particular of the books wherein
            this law was written.                 --Ayliffe.

   {Bill of particulars}. See under {Bill}.

   {In particular}, specially; peculiarly. ``This, in
      particular, happens to the lungs.'' --Blackmore.

   {To go into particulars}, to relate or describe in detail or
      minutely.

Source : WordNet®

in particular
     adv : specifically or especially distinguished from others; "loves
           Bach, particularly his partitas"; "recommended one book
           in particular"; "trace major population movements for
           the Pueblo groups in particular" [syn: {particularly}]