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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Lozenge, a four-cornered figure, differing from the fusil, being shorter and broader.
From Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
In the front of the Sulfcaa, the Zeg-Zeg troops had one French fusil: the Kano forces had forty-one muskets.
From Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa by Mungo Park
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
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 Charles Brockden Brown
He had seized his fusil, and wriggled his body into an erect attitude; but he felt powerless to do more.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
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