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Fusee   Listen
noun
Fusee  n.  
1.
A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. (Obs.)
2.
A fuse. See Fuse, n.
3.
(a)
A friction match for smokers' use having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
(b)
A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
4.
A signal device, usually cylindrical, consisting of a tube filled with a composition which burns with a bright colored light for a definite time. It is used principally for the protection of trains or road vehicles, indicating an obstruction or accident ahead. Also called a flare or railroad flare.





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"Fusee" Quotes from Famous Books



... presence. One dissentient voice should carry the day; for no gentleman has a right to insist upon his own special gratification if it will cause annoyance and discomfort to others present. Should there be no objection on the part of the entire party, the gentleman who first strikes his fusee should offer it to any others near him about to indulge also before he ...
— Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society • Sarah Annie Frost
... is a heavy cart, rolled over an arch, and is not the least agreeable instrument one hears. The flashes of lightning are made of pinches of rosin thrown on a flame, and the thunder is a cracker at the end of a fusee. The theatre is furnished, moreover, with little square trap-doors, through which the demons issue from their cave. When they have to rise into the air, little devils of stuffed brown cloth are substituted, or perhaps ...
— Great Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag • George T. Ferris
... this letter from Selah,' Herbert Le Breton murmured to himself, as he carefully burnt the compromising document, envelope and all, with a fusee from his oriental silver pocket match-case. 'I had hoped the thing had all been forgotten by this time, after her long silence, and my last two judiciously chilly letters—a sort of slow refrigerating ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen


Words linked to "Fusee" :   igniter, clock, safety fuse, match, fuse, fuzee, primer, ignitor, flare, light, lighter, lucifer, fusee drive, fuze, drive, time-fuse, friction match, detonating fuse, priming


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