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fusile, a.|ˈfjuːzɪl|
Also 7–9 fusil.
[ad. L. fūsil-is, f. fūs- ppl. stem of fundĕre to pour: see found v.3, fuse v.2 and -ile.]
1. Capable of being melted. Now rare.
1605Timme Quersit. ii. i. 105 Metall is nothing else but a certaine fusil salt. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 162 We teach, that every Cup in which the Eucharist is consecrated be Fusil. 1758A. Reid tr. Macquer's Chem. I. 358 Mix with this powder.. one part of fusile glass. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 641 Water, again, admits in the first place of a division into two kinds; the one liquid and the other fusile.
2. Running or flowing by the force of heat; made liquid by heat. Now rare.
a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 220 Metal may be soft, and yet not fusile. 1639Fuller Holy War ii. xii. (1647) 59 The glassie sand..could not be made fusile till it was brought hither. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 70 A fusil sea That in his furnace bubbles sunny red. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 278 And o'er the silver pours the fusil gold.
fig.1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 461 The fusile capacity of a language for running into ready coalitions of polysyllables aids this tendency.
3. Formed by melting or casting.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxxvi. (1495) 564 Bras that is wroughte wyth hamour is callid Regular, and bras that oonly is meltyd hyghte Fusile. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 573 He formd First, his own Tooles; then, what might else be wrought Fusil or grav'n in mettle. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 490 The fusile or moveable types were undoubtedly Dutch or German inventions. 1837Whittock, etc. Bk. Trades (1842) 386 To Peter Schoeffer belonged the honor of inventing ‘fusil’ types.
fig.1624Donne LXXX Serm. xlvi. (1640) 460 S. Paul was borne a man, an Apostle, not carved out, as the rest, in time; but a fusile Apostle, an Apostle powred out, and cast in a Mold. |