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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Gualpi que dista del anterior un tiro de fusil, es mas grande y populoso que los dos anteriores, puede tener hasta 200 familias.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
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 like the lozenge, but narrower.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
Our artillery lost its value, and we met them with fusil and caliver.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
The voice went on imperturbably: "Avec son grand fusil d'argent, En roulant ma boule, Visa le noir, tua le blanc, Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant."
From Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest by White, Stewart Edward
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