dispart

present singular third person disparts · participle present disparting · participle past disparted · past disparted

1. archaictransitiveTo part, separate.

   The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.

   1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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   […] that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   […] tenderly unfringe / Your long and lustrous lashes; cluster down / The mantling glory of deep fragrant hair, / Disparted from each forehead, myrtle-wreath'd, […]

   1861, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Threshold of Atrides. [In Verse.] By George F. Preston (page 62)

2. intransitiveobsoleteTo divide, divide up, distribute.

   Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

plural disparts

1. The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

   1854-1862, Charles Knight, "DISPART", in English Cyclopaedia 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. 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.

present singular third person disparts · participle present disparting · participle past disparted · past disparted

1. transitiveTo furnish with a dispart sight.
2. transitiveTo make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

   Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.

   1583, Richard Lucars, Arte of Shooting