different between fusil vs fusee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju?z?l/

Etymology 1

From Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fusil (plural fusils)

1. (heraldry) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French fusil, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth; fire”). Doublet of fusee.

Noun

fusil (plural fusils)

1. (now historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol II, ch. 43:

     [H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.

Synonyms

• fusee

Translations

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Adjective

fusil (comparative more fusil, superlative most fusil)

1. Obsolete form of fusile.
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     A kind of fusil marble.

French

Etymology

From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *foc?lis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.zi/

Noun

fusil m (plural fusils)

1. rifle, gun
2. steel to strike sparks from a flint (pierre à fusil)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: fusell
• ? Spanish: fusil

Further reading

• “fusil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French fusil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?sil/, [fu?sil]
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fusil m (plural fusiles)

1. rifle

   Synonym: rifle

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: pusil
  • ? Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil
• ? Ilocano: pusil

Related terms

Further reading

• “fusil” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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.