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- English Word Fusee Definition A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.
- English Word Fusee Definition The track of a buck.
- English Word Fusee Definition The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring.
- English Word Fusee Definition A similar wheel used in other machinery.
- English Word Fusel Definition Alt. of Fusel oil
- English Word Fusel oil Definition A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
- English Word Fusibility Definition The quality of being fusible.
- English Word Fusible Definition CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
- English Word Fusiform Definition Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
- English Word Fusil Definition Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
- English Word Fusil Definition Running or flowing, as a liquid.
- English Word Fusil Definition Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.
- English Word Fusil Definition A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
- English Word Fusil Definition A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.
- English Word Fusile Definition Same as Fusil, a.
- English Word Fusileer Definition Alt. of Fusilier
- English Word Fusilier Definition Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
- English Word Fusilier Definition A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.
- English Word Fusillade Definition A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
- English Word Fusillade Definition To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.