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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These animals never barked: I should have entered unaware of my danger, and my fate could scarcely have been averted by my fusil.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
To prevent suspicion, the officer in command had orders to make every sentinel he set or relieved in the night-time fire his fusil and to beat his drum at the usual hour.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
I took my fusil and pouch, according to my custom of never travelling without them.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
In the front of the Sulfcaa, the Zeg-Zeg troops had one French fusil: the Kano forces had forty-one muskets.
From Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa by Park, Mungo
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
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