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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Avec son grand fusil d’argent En roulant, ma boule!”
From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson
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
As for the difference between the lozenge and fusil, I could multiply opinions and examples, but hope those given will be sufficient.
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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)
Immediately Sir George and Guild, accompanied by a servant who was with them, started in pursuit of the intruder, and a moment afterward Dorothy heard her father's voice and the discharge of the fusil.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Major, Charles
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