Disparity
(Dis*par"i*ty) n.; pl. Disparities [LL. disparitas, fr. L. dispar unlike, unequal; dis- + par
equal: cf. F. disparité. See Par, Peer.] Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; —
followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.
The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures.
I. Taylor.
The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness.
Macaulay. Syn. — Inequality; unlikeness; dissimilitude; disproportion; difference.
Dispark
(Dis*park") v. t.
1. To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.
The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked.
Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure.
Till his free muse threw down the pale,
And did at once dispark them all.
Waller. Disparkle
(Dis*par"kle) v. t. [OF. desparpeillier.] To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.
Dispart
(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. Dispart
(Dis*part"), v. i. To separate, to open; to cleave.
Dispart
(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.
Dispart
(Dis*part") v. t.
1. (Gun.) To make allowance for the dispart in when taking aim.
Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.
Lucar. 2. (Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
