Vocabulary : Fusee to Fusileer

Fusee : A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. ;; A fuse. See Fuse, n. ;; A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar. ;; 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. ;; The track of a buck. ;; 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. ;; A similar wheel used in other machinery. ;; A signal used principally for the protection of trains, consisting of a tube filled with a composition which burns with a bright colored light for a definite time. ;; A friction match for smokers' use having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily bl
Fusel : Alt. of Fusel oil
Fusel oil : 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.
Fuselage : An elongated body or frame of an aeroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aeroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.
Fusibility : The quality of being fusible.
Fusible : CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
Fusiform : Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
Fusil : Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. ;; Running or flowing, as a liquid. ;; Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. ;; A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use. ;; A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.
Fusile : Same as Fusil, a.
Fusileer : Alt. of Fusilier
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