The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispart \Dis*part"\, v. t.
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(Gun.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.
--Lucar. (Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
Dispart \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.
Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart.
--Spenser.
The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.
--Emerson.
Dispart \Dis*part"\, n.
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(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. (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.
Dispart \Dis*part"\, v. i. To separate, to open; to cleave.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context now rare English) To part, separate. 2 (context obsolete English) To divide, divide up, distribute. Etymology 2
n. 1 The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance. 2 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. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To furnish with a dispart sight. 2 (context transitive English) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
Usage examples of "dispart".
H Ard is the doubt, and difficult to deeme,When all three kinds of loue together meet,And doe dispart the hart with powre extreme,Whether shall weigh the balance downe.
With that aloude the faire Serena crydeVnto the Knight, them to dispart in twaine:Who to them stepping did them soone diuide,And did from further violence restraine,Albe the wyld-man hardly would refraine.
Muddle, with his twenty-six thousand and odd years, and that old woman, Dispart the gunner.
Gerard himself laid the gun and estimated the range, squatting on his heels to look along the dispart sights with the gun at full elevation.
The black mass of a boat appeared in the V of the dispart sight, and he waved his hand to Bush.
The glimmer of the lamps mingled with his dreams and his dreams with it, so that scarce he wist whether asleep or waking he beheld the walls of the bed-chamber dispart in sunder, disclosing a prospect of vast paths of moonlight, and a solitary mountain peak standing naked out of a sea of cloud that gleamed white beneath the moon.
Thus God the Heav'n created, thus the Earth, Matter unform'd and void: Darkness profound Cover'd th' Abyss: but on the watrie calme His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspred, And vital vertue infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid Mass, but downward purg'd The black tartareous cold infernal dregs Adverse to life: then founded, then conglob'd Like things to like, the rest to several place Disparted, and between spun out the Air, And Earth self-ballanc't on her Center hung.
The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate: On either side Disparted Chaos overbuilt exclaimed, And with rebounding surge the bars assailed, That scorned his indignation: Through the gate, Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed, And all about found desolate.
What strange voyages, downward through its glaucous depths, upwards to its boiling and frothing surface, wafted by tides, driven by tempests, disparted by rude agencies.
They stretched away and away, as if for all the disparted world to sleep upon.
The tale appeared now and then to touch upon things that Adam had read from the disparted manuscript, and often to make allusion to influences and forces--vices too, I could not help suspecting--with which I was unacquainted.
The drooping boughs disparting, forth he sped, And then drew in his steed, to ask the path, Like a lost traveller in an alien land.
I ought rather to say only that I caught sight of something shadowy from which I received the impression of a slight, stooping man, in a shabby dress-coat reaching almost to his heels, the tails of which, disparting a little as he walked, revealed thin legs in black stockings, and large feet in wide, slipper-like shoes.
Raven," I said, "that you go through my house into another world, heedless of disparting space?
Now, in God His name I chide aloud the little interspace Disparting me from Certitude, and fain Would know the dream and vision ne'er again.