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 fusil is narrower than the lozenge, the angles at the chief and base being more acute, and the others more obtuse.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
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
Cotgrave has arquebuse à fusil, "a snaphaunce," and explains fusil as "a fire-steele for a tinder-box."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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
They were in neat uniform, and each soldier wore a leather helmet, with a crest of horsehair, and carried a fusil.
From "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale by Riker, James
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