Dis*part" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disparted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disparting.] [Pref. dis- + part: cf. OF. despartir.]
To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.
[Archaic]
Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart.
Spenser.
The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.
Emerson.
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Dis*part", v. i.
To separate, to open; to cleave.
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Dis*part", n.
1. Gun.
The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
On account of the dispart, the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis.
Eng. Cys.
2. Gun.
A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.
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Dis*part" (?), v. t.
1. Gun.
To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.
Lucar.
2. Gun.
To furnish with a dispart sight.
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