\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.
2. (Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.