fusil
1 Americannoun
adjective
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formed by melting or casting; fused; founded.
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Archaic. capable of being melted; fusible.
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Archaic. melted; molten.
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fusil1
1670–80; < French: musket, Old French fuisil, foisil steel for striking fire < Vulgar Latin *focīlis, derivative of Latin focus fire. See focus
Origin of fusil2
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin fūsilis molten, fluid. See fuse 2, -ile
Example Sentences
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Warned by what they had witnessed, the Indians had retired beyond even the range of the Serjeant’s fusil.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
On the long and narrow fusil it would be impossible.
From Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
He had seized his fusil, and wriggled his body into an erect attitude; but he felt powerless to do more.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist
The taste was all that he had anticipated, and melted iron could hardly have been more painful than that first torture of cold, fusil acid.
From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
The fusil is narrower than the lozenge, the angles at the chief and base being more acute, and the others more obtuse.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
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