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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (fusen, “not fighting, not competing”).

Noun

fusen (plural fusen)

1. (sumo) A sumo match that is cancelled due to the absence of one of the rikishi.

Derived terms

• fusenhai
• fusensho

Japanese

Romanization

fusen

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fesen

Etymology

From Old English f?san (“to send forth, impel, stimulate: drive away, put to flight, banish; hasten, prepare oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijan?. Reinforced by Old English gef?san (“to make ready, cause to hasten, make eager”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fu?z?n/

Verb

f?sen (third-person singular simple present f?seth, present participle f?synge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle f?sed)

1. To send or bring speedily; to hasten; to launch, to hurl a weapon; to proceed

   He lette þider fusen al þat he hafde ihalden, þat corn of þissen londe. — Layamon's Brut, 1275

2. To put to flight; pursue, to banish, to rush or charge at

   Oþer þu heom fusen, oþer þu heom feolle. — Layamon's Brut, 1275

3. To urge on or exhort

Conjugation

Related terms

• fus — eager, willing

Descendants

• English: fease, feese, feeze, pheeze, faze
• Scots: faize

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fusen m

1. definite singular of fus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

fusen (masculine and feminine fusen, neuter fuse or fusent, definite singular and plural fusne, comparative fusnare, indefinite superlative fusnast, definite superlative fusnaste)

1. eager

Derived terms

• framfusen

Noun

fusen m

1. definite singular of fus

References

• “fusen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology 1

From French fusil. Doublet of fusil.

Noun

fusee (plural fusees)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• fusil

Translations

Etymology 2

From French fusée, ultimately from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fusee (plural fusees)

1. A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.
2. 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.

3. A fuse for an explosive.
4. (US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.
5. A fusil, or flintlock musket.

Etymology 3

Uncertain.

Noun

fusee (plural fusees)

1. 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)

1. 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.