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Webster 1913 Edition

Fusee

Fu-see′

,
Noun.
[See 2d
Fusil
, and cf.
Fuse
,
Noun.
]
1.
A flintlock gun. See 2d
Fusil
.
[Obs.]
2.
A fuse. See
Fuse
,
Noun.

Fu-see′

,
Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
The track of a buck.
Ainsworth.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fusee

FUSEE'

,
Noun.
s as z. [L. fusus, a spindle, from fundo, fudi, fusum.]
The cone or conical part of a watch or clock, round which is wound the chain or cord.

FUSEE'

,
Noun.
s as z.
1.
A small neat musket or firelock. But we now use fusil.
2.
Fusee or fuse of a bomb or granade, a small pipe filled with combustible matter by which fire is communicated to the powder in the bomb; but as the matter burns slowly, time is given before the charge takes fire, for the bomb to reach its destination.
3.
The track of a buck.

Definition 2024

fusee

fusee

See also: fusée

English

Noun

fusee ‎(plural fusees)

  1. A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.
  2. A large friction match.
    • 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 322:
      A comfortable hammock on a warm afternoon would appeal to his indolent tastes, and then, when he was getting drowsy, a lighted fusee thrown into the nest would bring the wasps out in an indignant mass, and they would soon find a ‘home away from home’ on Waldo's fat body.
  3. A fuse for an explosive.
  4. (US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad
  5. A fusil, or flintlock musket.

Etymology 2

Uncertain.

Noun

fusee ‎(plural fusees)

  1. The track of a buck.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

Etymology

From French fusée, ultimately from Latin fūsus ‎(“spindle”).

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