† fusen.1
Obsolete. rare.
The track of an animal. Also figurative.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > trail > [noun]
feutea1375
treadc1400
fewea1425
racka1467
train1568
foiling1575
slot1575
trail1590
fuse1611
piste1696
spoor1823
sign1851
slotting1909
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Foulée, the Slot of a Stag, the Fuse of a Bucke.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 14 There wants a Scholar like a Hound of a sure Nose, that would not miss a true Scent..to trace those old Bishops in their fuse.
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fusen.2
/fjuːz/, U.S. /fjuz/ 1.
a. A tube, casing, cord, etc., filled or saturated with combustible material, by means of which a military shell, the blast of a mine, etc. is ignited and exploded.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > fuse
fuse1647
slow match1651
touch string1809
firing line1839
blasting-fuse1881
mote1881
German1883
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > fuse
portfire1629
fuse1647
match1653
field staff1705
port-feu1802
mouse1867
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > fuse
fuse1647
fusee1704
fuzze1802
nose-fuse1888
cheesa stick1906
device1931
Primacord1937
time pencila1944
1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery ii. 63 Every Ball hath a hole, left to put in a Fuse or piece of wood just like a Faucet for a spigot..made taper.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xxxi. 153 It is far more certain to fire a Morter-piece with Fuses then with Match.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Mortar The fuse..is generally a conical tube, formed of beech, willow, or some dry wood, and filled with a composition of sulphur, salt-petre, and mealed-powder.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 229 The other was the man standing by with a lighted match, and determined to touch the fuse.
1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 612 Fuse, Fuze, a small cylindrical cord filled with powder or other combustible matter used for igniting the powder in a bore-hole.
1879 J. C. Fife-Cookson Armies of Balkans ii. 25 The shrapnel..did execution around us, the time fuzes acting well.
b. Prepared material of which fuses may be made by cutting it into lengths.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > fuse > material for
fuse1766
fuse-tape1874
Cordtex1935
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. x. 143 Having bound some feuze round..the extremity of each of their tails.
1884 [see fuse-bag n. at Compounds 1]. 2. figurative. short fuse: see short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
fuse-bag n.
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1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 109 Each fuze bag to contain eight pieces of Bickford fuze.
fuse-composition n.
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1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 49 I therefore venture to suggest the possibility of the fuse composition becoming altered in its properties, by the action of time and moisture.
fuse-hole n.
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1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xxxi. 154 Try your Shells..by putting in a little Powder, and firing it, immediately stopping the Fuse-hole with Clay.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 83 A light cast-iron hollow ball, with a fuse hole.
C2.
fuse-cutter n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > fuse-cutter
fuse-cutter1874
fuse-gauge1874
fuse-saw1874
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 920/2 Fuse-cutter, an implement for gaging time-fuses to the desired seconds and fractions..The cutter for paper fuses for rifled guns..is more usually called a fuse-gage. It is a block of wood with a graduated brass gage let into one side, and having a hinged knife..by which the fuse..is cut off so as to burn any required length of time.
fuse-extractor n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > fuse-extractor
fuse-extractor1874
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 930/1 Fuse-extractor, this implement is designed for extracting fuses from shells.
fuse-gauge n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > fuse-cutter
fuse-cutter1874
fuse-gauge1874
fuse-saw1874
1874Fuse-gage [see fuse-cutter n.].
fuse-plug n. the plug that holds the fuse of a shell.
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1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 31 Aug. 178/3 Fuse-plug levees—that is, levees which will blow up automatically when the water reaches the dangerous height.
fuse-saw n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > fuse-cutter
fuse-cutter1874
fuse-gauge1874
fuse-saw1874
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 930/2 Fuse-saw, a tenon-saw used by artillery-men.
fuse-setter n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > fuse-setter
setter1802
fuse-setter1874
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 930/2 Fuse-setter, an implement for driving home wooden fuses.
fuse-tape n. (see quots.).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > fuse > material for
fuse1766
fuse-tape1874
Cordtex1935
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 930/2 Fuse-tape, a flat form of fuse, coated externally with pitch or tar.
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† fusefuzen.3
Obsolete. rare.
= fusee n.2 2. Also fuse-wheel.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > used with chain
fusee1622
rag wheel1656
fuse1674
rag1705
sprocket wheel1765
chain-wheel1845
chain geara1877
trammel-wheel1877
1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 119 In the Fuze of a Watch, the greatest Strength of the Spring is made to work upon the shortest Vectis.
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. vi. §86 Thinking Men considered, how it [sc. a clock] might be made portable..and so..put the Spring and Fuse-wheel, which make a Watch.
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† fusen.4
Obsolete. rare.
= fusarole n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > capital > parts of
abacus1563
echinus1563
plinth1563
fusarole1664
fuse1715
coussinet1728
rind1728
abaciscus1778
horn1847
1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xviii. 33 The Composite Order has..the Voluta, Ovolo, and Fusarolo, or Fuse, which are Members of the Ionick Capitel.]
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fusen.5
/fjuːz/, U.S. /fjuz/ A strip or wire of easily fusible metal (or a device containing this) inserted in an electric circuit, which melts (or ‘blows’) and thus interrupts the circuit when the current increases beyond a certain safe strength. More fully safety fuse. Also figurative (see blow v.1 19c).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > circuit-breaker > [noun]
contact-breaker1838
cutout1874
safety fuse1882
break-circuita1884
fuse1884
contactor1910
oil circuit-breaker1916
tapping key1916
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [noun]
cutout1874
safety catch1881
safety plug1882
fuse1884
tension-fuse1890
plug fuse1905
1884 R. Hammond Electr. Light v. 56 Conductor Joined with Fuse.
1890 [see fuse-plate n. at Compounds 1]. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves ii. 28 That scheme of yours..has blown out a fuse.
1969 Which? Sept. 282/2 When you buy a plug, it will normally have a 13-amp fuse inside.
Compounds
C1. Designating various contrivances for holding a fuse or a number of fuses.
fuse-block n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [noun] > contrivance holding fuse(s)
fuse-box1885
fuse-board1890
fuse-block1891
fuse-carrier1899
1891 H. E. Swift U.S. Patent 455,366 Fuse-wire cut outs or ‘fuse-blocks’, as they are commonly called, have also been used in connection with incandescent lamps, said fuse-blocks being located on the ceiling.
1893 W. P. Maycock Electr. Lighting iii. xv. §220. 384 A S.P. fuse block.
1894 D. Salomons Electr. Light Installations (ed. 7) II. 219 Another improvement..is that of placing under the fuse binding-screw a washer carrying a steady pin, which passes loose into the fuse block.
fuse-board n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [noun] > contrivance holding fuse(s)
fuse-box1885
fuse-board1890
fuse-block1891
fuse-carrier1899
1890 J. W. Urquhart Electr. Light Fitting 165 In such cases it is considered safer to assemble all the fuses upon a fuse board.
fuse-box n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [noun] > contrivance holding fuse(s)
fuse-box1885
fuse-board1890
fuse-block1891
fuse-carrier1899
1885 J. Dredge Electr. Illumination II. 325 A fuse box containing six fuses.
1894 D. Salomons Electr. Light Installations (ed. 7) III. 162 It is almost impossible to remove the fuse-box cover or replace the fuse without removing this box completely.
fuse-carrier n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [noun] > contrivance holding fuse(s)
fuse-box1885
fuse-board1890
fuse-block1891
fuse-carrier1899
1899 W. P. Maycock Electr. Wiring 185 The removable fuse carrier is of porcelain.
1914 S. C. Batstone Electric-light Fitting 104 Porcelain Tubular Fuse Carrier.
fuse-holder n.
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1899 W. P. Maycock Electr. Wiring 245 The fuse-holders are of porcelain.
fuse-mounting n.
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1964 R. F. Ficchi Electr. Interference vi. 78 The fuse-mounting and relay assembly is usually mounted close to the power source.
fuse-plate n.
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1890 J. W. Urquhart Electr. Light Fitting 162 The fuse plate may easily be removed and replaced by others.
fuse-plug n.
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1893 W. P. Maycock Electr. Lighting iii. xv. §220. 386 The fuse wire is fitted in what is called a fuse plug.
C2.
fuse-wire n. wire used to make fuses.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [noun] > wire used in making
fuse-wire1892
1892 F. C. Allsop Pract. Electr.-light Fitting 57 The reason why lead or lead-tin alloy is preferred for the fuse-wire of a cut-out.
1899 H. M. Leaf Internal Wiring 85 A guide for determining..the sizes of fuse wires that may be employed for cut-outs.
1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart i. 47 She snipped off lengths of fuse wire.
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† fuseadj.
Obsolete. rare.
= diffuse adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective]
large?c1400
ample1447
copiousc1450
exuberous1651
exuberant1654
voluminous1672
fuse1724
1724 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 160 His style is fuse, and reasonings..pretty magisterial.
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† fusev.1
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To hasten, set out hastily. Also reflexive.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed
rempeOE
fuseOE
rakeOE
hiec1175
i-fusec1275
rekec1275
hastec1300
pellc1300
platc1300
startc1300
buskc1330
rapc1330
rapec1330
skip1338
firk1340
chase1377
raikc1390
to hie one's waya1400
catchc1400
start?a1505
spur1513
hasten1534
to make speed1548
post1553
hurry1602
scud1602
curry1608
to put on?1611
properate1623
post-haste1628
whirryc1630
dust1650
kite1854
to get a move on1888
to hump it1888
belt1890
to get (or put) one's skates on1895
hotfoot1896
to rattle one's dags1968
shimmy1969
OE Andreas (1932) 1698 Ongan hine þa fysan ond to flote gyrwan.
OE Genesis 2860 He..sona ongann fysan to fore.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6754 Alle we mote fusen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 934 Forð com Corineus & fusde hine sulfne.
2. transitive. To forward or send forth speedily; to dispatch.
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the world > movement > transference > sending > send [verb (transitive)] > send off or dispatch
fusea1000
asendc1000
senda1122
depeach1483
dispatch1517
despeche1531
shoot1542
to send away1600
dispeed1603
expedite1606
despeed1611
to send off1667
a1000 Battle of Maldon 269 He fysde forð flan g enehe.
c1000 Lambeth Psalter li. 7 He fysþ ðe of getelde.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 757 Brutus nom al his ȝunge folc & hem to scipe fusede [c1300 Otho fusde].
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fusev.2
/fjuːz/, U.S. /fjuz/ 1. absolute.1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 134 The volcanic fire that smoulders and fuses in secret.1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 359/2 Collect the crystals, dry, and fuse.
a. transitive. To make fluid by means of intense heat; to liquefy, melt. Also with apart, together.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > melt [verb (transitive)]
formeltc893
meltOE
dissolve1382
rend1558
eliquate1638
discoagulatea1658
fuse1681
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > melt
meltc1450
rind1526
fuse1681
1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Fuse, to melt as metals.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 321 If it be still exposed to heat, it..becomes fused into a transparent glass.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 756 As soon as the colours are fused, the intensity of the fire should be abated.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat xiv. §113 A quantity of silver which had been fused in a ladle was allowed to solidify.
1866 D. Livingstone 28 July in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. iv. 85 The strata fused together by heat.
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. i. 58 As by fierce heat, the chains be fused apart.
b. Of a flux: To facilitate the fusion of.
ΚΠ
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 6 They [fluxes] fuse lime without effervescence.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 378 Ammoniacal phosphate of soda fuses this matter perfectly.
c. figurative. Often with the sense: To blend intimately, amalgamate, unite into one whole, as by melting together.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)] > cause to combine > coalesce or fuse
coalesce?1541
fuse1817
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 149 He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each.
1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xi. 136 The threat of foreign invasion had fused down and broken the edges of conflict and variance.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) iv. 136 Fused by the heat of poetic genius and poured out in one glowing and glittering flood.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 159 To fuse myself amongst them as if I had been an old acquaintance.
1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 12 The Scotch nation, nobles and commons, ministers and people, wonderfully fused together by fiery enthusiasm, poured like a lava torrent on the aggressor.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iv. 164 A Chinese grammar cannot..be fused into the moulds of our Aryan logic.
d. transferred. To liquefy, attenuate, thin (the blood).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > disperse, etc., humours or morbid matter
cleansec1000
resolvea1398
slaya1400
dissolvec1400
evacuec1400
mundify?a1425
repel?a1425
attenuate1533
evacuate1533
discuss?1537
divert?1541
extenuate1541
intercide?1541
educe1574
scour1577
attray1579
clenge1582
divertise1597
derive1598
revel1598
display1607
draw1608
incide1612
correct1620
fuse1705
lavage1961
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 125 They fuze and divide it [sc. the Blood], and break its Globules.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. iv. 147 Purgatives are either..to cleanse the Primæ Viæ, or to fuse and thin the Blood.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 476 How are we to account for that crude, fused, or dissolved state of the blood?
2.
a. intransitive. To become fluid or liquefied with heat; to melt.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > melt [verb (intransitive)]
melteOE
dissolve?c1450
discandya1616
fuse1800
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (intransitive)] > melt
fuse1800
society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [verb (intransitive)] > melt
melteOE
fuse1800
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 167 A mixture of these three substances fuses much easier.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 16 The crystals..fuse into a liquid.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 74 They were to fret and chafe till the dust was beaten off, and the grains of gold could meet and fuse.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1500. 678 By hard solder is meant one that only fuses at a high temperature.
b. figurative.
ΚΠ
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxvii. 149 Eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. iii. iii. 131 These passions fused and centred in one radiant point.
c. Of an electric light, appliance, etc.: to fail or be extinguished owing to the melting of a fuse. Also transitive, to cause (a circuit, etc.) so to fail.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [verb (intransitive)]
fuse1887
blow1902
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > furnish with fuse [verb (transitive)] > cause failure
to burn out1924
blow1949
fuse1951
1887 Fire Offices Rules for Electr. Light Installations 7 The cut-outs may be arranged to fuse at a higher per-centage.
1930 Daily Express 6 Nov. 2/2 Two minutes before he arrived..the lights in the building fused.
1940 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Murder at Munition Works xx. 192 I was in his shop once when the light fused.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 80/2 A heater should never be run from a lighting plug, as this is apt to fuse the circuit.
3. Anatomy. Of contiguous vessels, bones, etc.: To coalesce.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [verb (intransitive)] > coalesce
fuse1870
conjugate1872
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 56 There are two systemic aortæ which either fuse, or anastomose.
1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 39 In Tortoises all the trunk vertebræ are fused.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 456 In the Anura these fuse together on either side to form a fronto~parietal.
Derivatives
ˈfusing adj.
ΚΠ
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxii. 171 The blinding, fusing power of Imagination and Passion.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 10 The fire of moulding, fusing and controlling genius.
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fusefuzev.3
/fjuːz/, U.S. /fjuz/ transitive. To furnish with a fuse.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > use mines and explosives [verb (transitive)] > furnish with fuse
fuse1802
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > fit shell with fuse
fuse1802
1802 Duke of Wellington Jrnl. 30 Nov. in Dispatches (1837) I. 382 Ordering..2500 four and half inch shells, 600 to be filled, fused, etc.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 396 Slate is extracted..by making perforations between its beds, into which gunpowder is placed and fused.
1869 Daily News 3 July The projectiles can be fuzed and adjusted.
Derivatives
fused adj.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > furnished with a fuse
fused1869
1869 Daily News 3 July The Horse Artillery..obtained 265 impressions with the Shrapnell; 323 with the segment, double fuzed.
1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 104 Each man will throw four fuzed grenades across the ditch.
ˈfusing n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > [noun] > furnishing with fuse
fusing1895
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > fitting shell with fuse
fixing1769
fusing1895
1895 Daily News 23 July 6/1 They failed in one important point—the correct fuzing of the shells.
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fusev.4
/fjuːz/, U.S. /fjuz/ transitive. To insert a fuse in (a circuit), to furnish with a fuse.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > furnish with fuse [verb (transitive)]
fuse1894
1894 D. Salomons Electr. Light Installations (ed. 7) II. vi. 234 The idea of fusing the plug is probably due to Mr. Massey.
1914 D. C. Shafer Harper's Everyday Electr. ix. 90 The method of fusing a house circuit is best shown in Fig. 12.
1954 F. Wiseman Penguin Handyman (ed. 3) i. 11 A circuit supplying this [current] should be fused with a 5-amp fuse wire.
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fused1934
1934 C. Haslett Electr. Handbk. for Women ix. 183 Fused plugs are available and are often found very useful.
1962 B.S.I. News Mar. 24/2 Socket-outlets requiring fused plugs must not accept unfused plugs.
1967 Do It Yourself Nov. 1283/2 Feed the circuit from a fused spur box situated in a conspicuous position on the landing.
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