Mouth vs Dispart - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between mouth and dispart

is that mouth is (obsolete) to make mouths at while dispart is (obsolete) to divide, divide up, distribute.

In lang=en terms the difference between mouth and dispart

is that mouth is to pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow while dispart is to make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

As nouns the difference between mouth and dispart

is that mouth is (anatomy) the opening of a creature through which food is ingested while dispart is the difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

As verbs the difference between mouth and dispart

is that mouth is to speak; to utter while dispart is to part, separate or dispart can be to furnish with a dispart sight.

mouth

English

(wikipedia mouth)

Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs.

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.

An outlet, aperture or orifice.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}

(slang) A loud or overly talkative person.

(saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

(obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

* Addison

Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.

(obsolete) Cry; voice.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.

* Bible, Matt. xviii. 16

that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established

(obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

* Shakespeare

Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(en verb)

To speak; to utter.

He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.

* Hare

mouthing big phrases

To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.

The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.

To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.

The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.

(obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

(obsolete) To make mouths at.

Derived terms

(mouth) * a closed mouth gathers no feet * all mouth and pants/trousers]], all mouth and no pants/[[all mouth and no trousers, trousers, all mouth * ass-to-mouth/ATM * badmouth * bad taste in one's mouth * bellmouth * big mouth * blabbermouth * born with a silver spoon in one's mouth * broadmouth * cottonmouth * dirty mouth * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * down in the mouth * dragon's mouth * dry mouth * fishmouth * flannelmouth * flutemouth * foam at the mouth * foot-and-mouth/foot and mouth * frogmouth * froth at the mouth * goalmouth * guttermouth * headmouth * hand-foot-and-mouth disease * hand-to-mouth * horse's mouth * keep one's mouth shut * largemouth * loudmouth/loud-mouth, loudmouthed/loud-mouthed * motor mouth * mouth bow * mouth-breather * mouthbreathing * mouthbrooder * mouthed/-mouthed * mouther * mouthfeel * mouth-footed * mouth harp * mouth-made * mouth of a sailor * mouth mirror * mouthful * mouthguard * mouthless * mouthlike * mouthly * mouth music * mouth off * mouth organ * mouthpart * mouthpiece * mouth-to-mouth * mouthwash * mouthwatering/mouth-watering * mouthy * out of the mouths of babes * pipemouth * poormouth * potty mouth * put one's foot in one's mouth * put one's money where one's mouth is * put words in somebody's mouth * redmouth * river mouth * run off at the mouth * saltmouth * scabby mouth * sea mouth * shoot off at the mouth * shoot one's mouth off * shut one's mouth * smallmouth * smash-mouth/smashmouth * straight from the horse's mouth * suckermouth * trench mouth * warmouth * wash your mouth out * watch your mouth * word of mouth * wrymouth

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dispart

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dispartire and its source, (etyl) dispartire.

Verb

(en verb)

To part, separate.

*1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:

*:that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod [...].

* Emerson

The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted .

(obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.

*, II.xi:

*:Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place [...].

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

* Eng. Cyc.

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.

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.

Verb

(en verb)

To furnish with a dispart sight.

To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

* Lucar

Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.