Crossword clues for fusil
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fusil \Fu"sil\, n. [F. fusil, LL. fosile a steel for kindling fire, from L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL. fire. See Focus, and cf. Fusee a firelock.] A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
Fusil \Fu"sil\, n. [See 3d Fusee.] (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.
Fusil \Fu"sil\, a. [L. fusilis molten, fluid, fr. fundere, fusum, to pour, cast. See Fuse, v. t.]
Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] ``A kind of fusil marble''
--Woodward.Running or flowing, as a liquid. [R.] ``A fusil sea.''
--J. Philips.Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. [Obs.]
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flintlock musket, 1670s, from French fusil "musket" (see fusilier). Originally in English as distinguished from the matchlock variety.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context heraldiccharge English) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, resembling a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge. 2 (context historical English) A light flintlock musket. Etymology 2
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. 2 (context obsolete English) Running or flowing, like a liquid. 3 (context obsolete English) Formed by melting and pouring into a mould; cast; founded.
WordNet
n. a light flintlock musket
Wikipedia
Fusil may refer to:
- Fusil, a light flintlock musket used by a fusilier
- Fusil (heraldry), a heraldic ordinary similar to a lozenge
- Gerald Fusil, creator of the Raid Gauloises adventure race
Usage examples of "fusil".
She and the rest bore calivers, arms much like fusils, but with somewhat shorter though thicker stocks and more slender barrels.
Toi, par exemple, en prenant ton grand couteau, Pagliuccella en prenant son grand fusil, et moi en prenant mon grand sabre, chacun de nous enfin en prenant quelque chose et en marchant contre eux.
The assorted weapons- the battered swords, lances, pitchforks, truncheons and even a few rusty fusils - that so many of them carried bore testimony to th equality of their determination, if not its source.
Like the Spaniards themselves, the Irish seemed to prefer to make use of lance or spear, ax and sword, saving fusils, carbines, and pistols for emergencies, and the blacksmith symphony was deafening even at a distance.
They were the city militia, armed with fusils and carbines, and dressed in loose red trousers and plastic cuirasses as slick and cloudily transparent as ice.
El lector recordará que me cercaron, que tiré al aire un tiro de fusil y que tomaron la descarga por una suerte de trueno mágico.
So I watched them ride away, father and Richard in scarlet surcoats and bearing the scarlet shields with the three silver badgers of the Branthwaites, their followers in a motley collection of surcoats, some scarlet, some azure and hastily stitched with the Percy emblem (the five golden fusils joined in fess), most jacketed in leather or in cloth unadorned.
Heralds have not omitted this order or imitation thereof, while they Symbollically adorn their Scuchions with Mascles, Fusils, and Saltyrs, and while they dispose the figures of Ermins, and vaired coats in this Quincuncial method.