单词 | fusile |
释义 | fusileadj. 1. Capable of being melted. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [adjective] > fusible fusiblec1386 fusile1605 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. i. 105 Metall is nothing else but a certaine fusil salt. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 162 in Justice Vindicated We teach, that every Cup in which the Eucharist is consecrated be Fusil. 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 358 Mix with this powder.. one part of fusile glass. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > melted moltena1400 fusilea1631 melted1660 fused1694 fritted1879 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 177 Metal may be soft, and yet not fusil. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xii. 59 The glassie sand..could not be made fusile till it was brought hither. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 70 A fusil sea That in his furnace bubbles sunny red. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 278 And o'er the silver pours the fusile gold. 3. Formed by melting or casting. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > [adjective] meltingeOE fusilea1398 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > cast > formed by casting fusilea1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxxvi. 844 Bras þat is wrought wiþ hamour is cleped regulare, and bras þat is oonliche yȝote hatte fusile. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 573 He formd First his own Tooles; then, what might else be wrought Fusil or grav'n in mettle. View more context for this quotation 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 490 The fusile or moveable types were undoubtedly Dutch or German inventions. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 386 To Peter Schoeffer belonged the honor of inventing ‘fusil’ types. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1398 |
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