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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His only arms were a light fusil, which I had given him as a present.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
Two or three more shots were fired with like effect; and the fusil of Pouchskin was next called into requisition, and brought to bear upon the nest.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
A fusil is a bearing in heraldry made in the form of a spindle, with its yarn or thread wound about it.
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Hiz natral disposishun iz a warm cross between red pepper in the pod and fusil oil, and hiz moral bias iz, “git out ov mi way.”
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
The fusil is like the lozenge, but narrower.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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