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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.

anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left. "Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards." Farrow.

Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

To make less; to bring low. Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson.

An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

Manifestation; expression; sign. All the large effects That troop with majesty. Shak.

To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of. "That fair female troop . . . empty of all good." Milton. I shall find you empty of that fault. Shak.

A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [Recent, Eng.]

with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of P…

A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.

Supplies issued to troops on the march; hence (Mil.),

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

to the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.