Till his free muse threw down the pale,
And did at once dispark them all.
Waller.
Dis*par"kle (?), v. t. [OF. desparpeillier.] To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.
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. [Archaic]
Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart.
Spenser.
The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.
Emerson.
Dis*part", v. i. To separate, to open; to cleave.
Dis*part", 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.
Dis*part" (?), 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.