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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The uncouthness of my garb, my wild and weatherworn appearance, my fusil and tomahawk, could not but startle them.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
"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 Munro, Neil
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 Bell, George
Besides, the fusil which had been given me by Sarsefield, and which I had so unexpectedly recovered, had lost none of its value in my eyes.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
Not a cry awoke the solitude—not the flash of a fusil lit up the darkness of the twilight.
From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne
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