| 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. |