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fusile

British  
/ ˈfjuːzaɪl /

adjective

  1. easily melted; fusible

  2. formed by casting or melting; founded

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of fusile

C14: from Latin fūsilis molten, from fundere to pour out, melt


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The liquid is composed of small and unequal particles, the fusile of large and uniform particles and is more solid, but nevertheless melts at the approach of fire, and then spreads upon the earth.

From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett

Of the fusile kinds the fairest and heaviest is gold; this is hardened by filtration through rock, and is of a bright yellow colour.

From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett

Water, again, is of two kinds, liquid and fusile.

From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett

I would not be mistaken to mean that he found his penitence easy, or that he was, like Saint Paul, transformed as it were by a lightning flash—“a fusile Christian.”

From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Water, again, admits in the first place of a division into two kinds; the one liquid and the other fusile.

From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett

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