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noun
Dispart  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."
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.



verb
Dispart  v. t.  (past & past part. disparted; pres. part. disparting)  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." "The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted."



Dispart  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."
2.
(Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.



Dispart  v. i.  To separate, to open; to cleave.






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"Dispart" Quotes from Famous Books



... mirror that the play of the flash shall appear truly circular and exactly like a faint sun (see preceding paragraph): secondly, be careful to bring the eye to the very edge of the mirror; there should be as little "dispart" as possible, as artillerymen would say. Unless these cautions be attended to very strictly, the flash will never be seen at the ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

... that fact, that Life and Death, Stay there at gaze, till it dispart, dispread, As though a star should open out, all sides, Grow the world on you, as it is ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine, This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to raise! Ah, one and all, how they helped, would dispart now and now combine, Zealous to hasten the work, heighten their master his praise! And one would bury his brow with a blind plunge down to hell, Burrow a while and build, broad on the roots of things, Then up again swim into sight, having based me my ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... its hand to the plow and then turns back; they went earnestly on with their banishments and executions, paying particular attention to the Separatists, but keeping plenty in hand for the Puritans also.—The Separatists, it may be observed, were so called because their aim was to dispart themselves entirely from the orthodox communion; the Puritans were willing to remain in the fold, but had it in mind to purify it, by degrees, from the defilement which they held it to have contracted. The former would not in the least particular make friends with the mammon ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

... time, and tears, The deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings Dispart us; and the river of events Has, for an age of years, to east and west More widely borne our cradles. Thou to me Art foreign, as when seamen at the dawn Descry a land far off, and know not which. So I approach uncertain; so I cruise Round thy mysterious islet, and behold Surf and great mountains ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... rest, O my beauty, my brightest, But a barrier lies ever between us. So fierce are the fates and so mighty —I feel it—that rule to their rede. Ah, nearer I would be, and nigher, Till nought should be left to dispart us, —The wielder of Skofnung the wonder, And the wearer of sheen from ...
— The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald • Unknown

... the distance of the object must be so large compared to the diameter of the mirror that the play of the flash shall appear truly circular and exactly like a faint sun (see preceding paragraph): secondly, be careful to bring the eye to the very edge of the mirror; there should be as little "dispart" as possible, as artillerymen would say. Unless these cautions be attended to very strictly, the flash will never be seen at ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

... Lie still, for the wind on the warm seas dozes, And the wind is unquieter yet than thou art. Does a thought in thee still as a thorn's wound smart? Does the fang still fret thee of hope deferred? What bids the lips of thy sleep dispart? Only the song ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... born in a season of good grace. And now his beard was growing; longer it grew apace. For this the Cid had spoken, this from his mouth said he, "By my love for King Alphonso the king who banished me," That the shears should not shear it, nor a single hair dispart, That so the Moors and Christians might ...
— The Lay of the Cid • R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon



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