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 Charles Brockden Brown
Alexis, meanwhile, had dropped his rifle and taken up the fusil of Pouchskin.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
One of the travellers, seeing himself without any thing to do, took his fusil and followed the course of this rivulet, in hopes of killing some game.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
"Four!" said John; "I could scarcely do better with my own French fusil Main Og."
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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 Walter Thornbury
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