dispart
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Etymology
Origin of dispart
1580–90; apparently < Italian dispartire < Latin dispartīre to part, separate, divide, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + partīre to share out, derivative of part- part
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The envelope used with the bullet in old rifles.—Muzzle-patch is a projection on the top of the muzzle of some guns, doing away with the effect of dispart in laying.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
“Yes, but you have not yet arrived at the dispart of the compass.”
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick
What bids the lips of thy sleep dispart?
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Nature, at some former period, had occasioned the solid mass to dispart at this place, and had thus afforded access to the summit of the hill.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
We swung our way through flying men, Your hand lay fast in mine: We saw the shifting crowd dispart, The level ice-reach shine.
From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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