Fusee

//ˈfjuːzi// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A light musket or firelock.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.

    "To day when we attended the winding up of the watches the fusee of Mr Arnolds would not turn round and after several unsuccessfull tryals we were obliged to let it go down […] ."

  3. 3
    One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.

    "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."

  4. 4
    any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant wordnet
  5. 5
    A large friction match.

    "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."

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  1. 6
    a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind wordnet
  2. 7
    A fuse for an explosive.
  3. 8
    a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains wordnet
  4. 9
    A colored flare used as a warning on a railroad. US
  5. 10
    a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French fusil. Doublet of fusil.

Etymology 2

From French fusée, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

Etymology 3

From fuse + -ee.

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