'Muzzle sight' definitions:

Definition of 'Muzzle sight'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting. [1913 Webster]
  • With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'muzzle sight'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]