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▪ I. fusee1, fuzee Obs. exc. Hist.|fjuːˈziː|
[a. F. fusil (pronounced (fyzi)): see fusil2.]
A light musket or firelock.
1661Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. App. 430 Horsemen well appointed with..carabines, musquetoons, or fuzees. 1705S. Sewall Diary 26 Mar. (1879) II. 127 A souldier from Deerfield accompanied us with his Fusee. 1760Chron. in Ann. Reg. 82/1 A handsome double barrell'd fuzee valued at twelve or fifteen guineas. a1813A. Wilson Foresters Poet. Wks. (1846) 211 His light fuzee across his shoulder thrown.
†b. One who is armed with a fusee; a fusilier.
1650A. B. Mutat. Polemo 29 That brave Gallant number of Fusees were squandred all to peices, knockt o' the head, or starved.
▪ II. fusee2, fuzee|fjuːˈziː|
Also 7 fus(s)ie, fusey, phusee, 8 fusy.
[a. F. fusée, primarily, spindleful of tow (:—med.L. fūsāta, f. L. fūsus spindle); hence used for spindle, and in senses 2–4 below. Sense 5 is an Eng. development from 3.]
†1. A spindle-shaped figure: = fusil1 1. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 105 The Fuzie or spindle, called Romboides.
2. A conical pulley or wheel, esp. the wheel of a watch or clock upon which the chain is wound and by which the power of the mainspring is equalized.
1622in Naworth Househ. Bks. 199 Making a fussie to my Lords cloke. 1658S. Crooke Div. Char. i. ix. 82 This is the first wheele, yea, the Phusee, the inward spring that moves his watch so swiftly. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. ii. 50 In the Watch..the reason of the motion of the Ballance is by the motion of the next Wheel, and that by the motion of the next, and that by the motion of the Fusee. 1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5155/4 A Gold Watch..going with a Spring, without Fusey, Chain or String. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art II. 284 From the fusy to the balance the wheels drive the pinions. 1824R. Stuart Hist. Steam Engine 146 Chains acting on a spiral in the manner of a fusee. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 112 The mouth at this time represents the going fuzee of a chronometer. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 108 In modern watches and clocks the fusee is furnished with maintaining power to drive the train while the fusee is being turned backwards during the process of winding.
3. = fuse n.2 1.
1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4062/7 The Enemy..set Fire to great quantities of Powder, with Intent to spring their Mines; which..was prevented from taking Effect, by cutting off the Fusees. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Secret d'un brulot, that part of the train of a fire-ship where the match or fusee is laid. 1809Naval Chron. XXII. 287 Cones, containing..12 lbs. of powder, to burst by fuzees. 1858Greener Gunnery 139 The aperture [of the shell] is securely screwed up: fusees not being necessary in this arrangement.
4. Farriery. An exostosis upon one of the cannon-bones.
⁋Some modern Dicts, by an obvious misapprehension, define it as ‘a kind of splint applied to the legs of horses’.
1720Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. lxxviii. (1738) 233 Sometimes a double Splent is formed which is called by the French a Fuzee. 1727Bailey, vol. II, Fuzee [in Horses] two dangerous Splents joining above and downwards. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Commonly a fuzee rises to the knee and lames the horse. Fuzees differ from screws or thorough splents in this, that the latter are placed on the two opposite sides of the leg.
5. A kind of match with a large head of combustible material tipped with brimstone for ignition by friction; a lucifer, vesuvian.
1832Specif. Jones' Patent No. 6335. 2, Fuzees for the purpose of lighting cigars, pipes, etc. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 433 The ‘fuzees’, as I most frequently heard them called..are chiefly German made. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xxiv, It was one of those flaming fusees, and burnt with a blue light.
6. attrib. and Comb., as fusee-maker, fusee-wheel. Also fusee-engine, -machine, a machine for cutting fusees for watches; fusee-piece, -sink, -snail, -windlass (see quots.).
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Fusee-engine, a clock-maker's machine for cutting and shaping fusees.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 930/1 *Fusee-machine, a machine for cutting the snail-shaped or spirally grooved wheel on which the chains of certain descriptions of watches are wound.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Fuzee-maker, a manufacturer of parts of watch-work.
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 110 *Fusee Piece..the circular plug screwed to the top plate in which the upper pivot of the fusee works.
Ibid., *Fusee Sink..the sink cut in the top plate of a watch to give space for the fusee.
Ibid. 247 The *fusee snail, a projecting nose on the end of the fusee.
1838Penny Cycl. XII. 303 (art. Horology) The spring..gives motion to the fusee, and with it the *fusee-wheel and the rest of the train.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 930/1 *Fusee-windlass, a pump-windlass with a conical barrel. |