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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



... dit 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 n'ont pas ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... P. is pleased 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
... station a man of your guard in the angle of the staircase where it looks along each corridor. Pick out your prettiest cross-bowmen, for it were not seemly that my guests should be disturbed by the rude shots and villanous reek of the fusil." ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... Grant! In the meantime—just look at 'em—look at 'em paying twice as much for rent as they pay up town: gouged at the company stores down here for their food and clothing; held up by loan sharks when they borrow money; doped with aloes in their beer, and fusil oil in their whiskey, wrapped up in shoddy clothes and paper shoes, having their pockets picked by weighing frauds at the mines, and their bodies mashed in speed-up devices in the mills; stabled in filthy shacks without water ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... the story of a Sicilian schoolboy, who illustrated his criminal relations with his schoolfellows by a series of sketches in his album. A certain Cavaglia, called "Fusil" robbed and murdered an accomplice and hid the body in a cupboard. He was arrested and in prison decided to commit suicide a hundred days after the date of his crime, but before doing so, he adorned his water-jug ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero


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