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fusee
English
Etymology 1
From French fusil. Doublet of fusil.
Noun
fusee (plural fusees)
- A light musket or firelock.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview 2002, p. 123:
- 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.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 75:
- 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 pair of pistols of exquisite workmanship, and a purse containing fifty guineas in cash and a twenty-five pounds banknote.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview 2002, p. 123:
Synonyms
- fusil
Translations
Etymology 2
From French fusée, ultimately from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).
Noun
fusee (plural fusees)
- A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.
- A large friction match.
- 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), page 322:
- 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, and they would soon find a ‘home away from home’ on Waldo's fat body.
- 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), page 322:
- A fuse for an explosive.
- (US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.
- A fusil, or flintlock musket.
Etymology 3
Uncertain.
Noun
fusee (plural fusees)
- The track of a buck.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Etymology 4
fuse +? -ee.
Noun
fusee (plural fusees)
- One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
- 2002, Philosophical Topics, volume 30, issue 1, page 276:
- 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 produce someone who is exactly like what either of the fusees would have been like had the fusion not occurred.
- 2002, Philosophical Topics, volume 30, issue 1, page 276:
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fuses
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fju?z?z/
Noun
fuses
- plural of fuse
Verb
fuses
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuse
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: fuse, fusent
Verb
fuses
- second-person singular present indicative of fuser
- second-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
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