/ˈfjuːzi/, /fjuːˈziː/
OriginFrom French fusil. Doublet of fusil.
- A light musket or firelock.
“He had not been many days at the chateau, when he perceived, with surprize and consternation, that his steps were continually watched by two servants armed with fusees.”
“Breakfast being over, my father took me into his study, where, after fervently recommending me to the care of a protecting providence, he gave me a beautiful fusee, which cost him forty guineas, a pai”
“After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivag”
- A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.
“To day when we attended the winding up of the watches the fusee of Mr Arnolds would not turn round and after several unsuccessfull tryals we were obliged to let it go down […] .”
- A large friction match.
“A comfortable hammock on a warm afternoon would appeal to his indolent tastes, and then, when he was getting drowsy, a lighted fusee thrown into the nest would bring the wasps out in an indignant mass”
- A fuse for an explosive.
- USA colored flare used as a warning on a railroad.
- One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
“This is the fusion of two people who are neurally and biologically (and so, psychologically) identical. Setting aside issues about intensional content, when these differ, such a fusion would clearly p”
Formsfusees(plural)