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Dispart

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Dis`part´
v. t.1.To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.
[imp. & p. p. Disparted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disparting.]
Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart.
- Spenser.
The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.
- Emerson.
v. i.1.To separate, to open; to cleave.
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.
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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