muzzle sight

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muzzle sight - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Muzzle \Muz"zle\, n. [OE. mosel, OF. musel, F. museau muzzle or
     snout, LL. musellus, fr. musus, morsus. See Muse, v. i.,
     and cf. Morsel.]
     1. The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a
        horse; a snout.
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     2. The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge;
        as, the muzzle of a gun.
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     3. A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth
        of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting.
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              With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound
                                                    --Dryden.
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     Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2.
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  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.
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              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.
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     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.
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