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noun
Fusil  n.  A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.


Fusil  n.  (Her.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle. Note: It differs from a lozenge in being longer in proportion to its width.


adjective
Fusil  adj.  
1.
Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. (R.) "A kind of fusil marble"
2.
Running or flowing, as a liquid. (R.) "A fusil sea."
3.
Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. (Obs.)





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"Fusil" Quotes from Famous Books



... un voyageur, je parvins a degager mes bras des replis dont le boa avait serre mon corps, et au moment ou le monstre ouvrait sa gueule formidable a deux pouces de ma tete, je lui lachai mon coup de fusil entre les deux machoires, et il tomba raide mort.—C'est magnifique, dit quelqu'un. Combien de pieds de long avait ce serpent?—Il avait quatre-vingt douze pouces, repondit l'autre; les serpents ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... left behind, there would be something less than two hundred, for the men who had come up the loch-side to the summon of the beacons returned the way they came when they found MacCailein gone, and hurried to the saving of wife and bairn. We were all well armed with fusil and sword, and in that we had some advantage of the caterans bearing down on us; for they had, for the main part, but rusty matchlocks, pikes, billhooks—even bows and arrows, antique enough contrivance for a time of civilised ...
— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro
... to term the "routine" reason is after all but one among many, and is not better substantiated than some of the others quoted by me; for though the lozenge has a "supposed" resemblance to the distaff or fusil, heraldically it is but a supposed one, and by most writers the difference is ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 • Various
... perish! The taste was all that he had anticipated, and melted iron could hardly have been more painful than that first torture of cold, fusil acid. Gulping it down, he was willing to congratulate himself on his endurance and wisdom, his very heroism in undertaking ...
— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears


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