fusile

/ ˈfjuːzaɪl /

adjective

1. easily melted; fusible
2. formed by casting or melting; founded

Word History and Origins

Origin of fusile¹

C14: from Latin fūsilis molten, from fundere to pour out, melt

Example Sentences

Or who, second in invention, but first in utility, imagined to cast the metal with fusile types, separate from each other?—to fix this scattered alphabet in a form, and thus by one stroke write a thousand manuscripts, and, with the identical letters, multiply not a single work, but all sorts of works hereafter?

From Project Gutenberg

“A lot of health plans will struggle and fail,” said Jeff Fusile, a health care partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

From New York Times

But the cost of such upgrades could be the undoing of some plans, said Mr. Fusile, the health care partner.

From New York Times

One of the workers, Boiswa Fusile, shows the folk how to mark the ballot and warns that doing it wrong could be "a vote for the opposition," that is, for incumbent President F.W. de Klerk.

From Time Magazine Archive

At one point where they were hemmed in, not only by the islands, but by a number of sailing crafts, the Captain, a Filipino, very seriously asked the Paymaster if he had plenty of fire arms; his reply was, “Oh, muchee fusile,” meaning, “Oh, very much fire arms.”

From Project Gutenberg