Webster's Dictionary 1913

4429

Fuscation

Fus‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. fuscare, fuscatum, to make dark, fr. fuscus dark.] A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. Blount.

4430

Fuscin

Fus″cin (?), n. [L. fuscus dark-colored, tawny.] (Physiol. Chem.) A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.

4431

Fuscine

Fus″cine (?), n.(Chem.) A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.

4432

Fuscous

Fus″cous (?), a. [L. fuscus.] Brown or grayish black; darkish.Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purpleand the like. Burke.

4433

Fuse

Fuse (fūz), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Fused (fūzd); p. pr. & vb. n.Fusing.] [L. fusus, p. p. of fundere to pour, melt, cast. See Foundo to cast, and cf. Futile.] 1. To liquefy by heat;...

4434

Fuse (2)

Fuse, v. i. 1. To be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.2. To be blended, as if melted together.Fusing point, the degree of temperature at whic...

4435

Fuse (3)

Fuse, n. [For fusee, fusil. See 2d Fusil.] (Gunnery, Mining, etc.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasti...

4436

Fuse (4)

{ Fuse, orFuze }, n.(Elec.) A wire, bar, or strip of fusible metal inserted for safety in an electric circuit. When the current increases beyond a certain safe strength, the met...

4437

Fuse (5)

{ Fuse, orFuze, plug }. 1. (Ordnance) A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse.2. A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring.

4438

Fusee

Fu‐see″ (?), n. [See 2d Fusil, and cf. Fuse, n.] 1. A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.2. A fuse. See Fuse, n.3. A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.

4439

Fusee (2)

Fu‐see″, n. The track of a buck. Ainsworth.

4440

Fusee (3)

Fu‐see″, n. [F. fusée a spindleful, fusee, LL. fusata, fr. fusare to use a spindle, L. fusus spindle.] (a) The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize th...

4441

Fusee (4)

Fu‐see″ (?), n. 1. (Railroads) 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...

4442

Fusel

Fu″sel (?), n., Fu″sel oil. [G. fusel bad liquor.] (Chem.) A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirabl...

4443

Fuselage

Fu″se‐lage (?), n.(Aëronautics) An elongated body or frame of an aëroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage...

4444

Fusibility

Fu″si‐bil″i‐ty (?), n. [Cf. F. fusibilité.] The quality of being fusible.

4445

Fusible

Fu″si‐ble (?), a. [F. fusible. See Fuse, v. t.] CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.Fusible metal, any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an al...

4446

Fusiform

Fu″si‐form (?), a. [L. fusus spindle + -form: cf. F. fusiforme.] Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

4447

Fusil

Fu″sil (?), a. [L. fusilis molten, fluid, fr. fundere, fusum, to pour, cast. See Fuse, v. t.] 1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. “A kind of fusil mar...

4448

Fusil (2)

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 mus...

4449

Fusil (3)

Fu″sil, n. [See 3d Fusee.] (Her.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; — named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.☞ It differs from a lozenge in being longer in prop...

4450

Fusile

Fu″sile (?), a. Same as Fusil, a.

4451

Fusileer

{ Fu″sil‐eer″, Fu″sil‐ier″ } (?), n. [F. fusilier, fr. fusil.] (Mil.) (a) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: (b) A title now borne by some regiments a...

4452

Fusillade

Fu″sil‐lade″ (?), n. [F. fusillade, cf. It. fucilata. See Fusil a firelock.] (Mil.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms.

4453

Fusillade (2)

Fu″sil‐lade″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Fusillader; p. pr. & vb. n.Fusillading.] To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

4454

Fusion

Fu″sion (?), n. [L. fusio, fr. fundere, fusum to pour, melt: cf. F. fusion. See Fuse, v. t., and cf. Foison.] 1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the ...

4455

Fusome

Fu″some (?), a. [AS. f�san to hasten, fr. f�s ready, prompt, quick; akin to OS. f�s, OHG. funs, Icel. fuss willing; prob. from the root of E. find.] Handy; reat; handsome; notab...