From en.wiktionary.org:
[fusée]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en]. [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A light musket or firelock .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1790 | author=w:Helen Maria Williams | title=Letters Written in France | publisher=Broadview | year_published=2002 | page=123
|passage=He had not been many days at the chateau, when he perceived, with
surprize and consternation, that his steps were continually watched by two
servants armed with FUSEES.}}
1. * 1808–10 , [William Hickey (memoirist)] , _Memoirs of a Georgian Rake_ , Folio Society 1995, p. 75:
2. *: Breakfast being over, my father took me into his study, where, after fervently recommending me to the care of a protecting providence, he gave me a beautiful FUSEE , which cost him forty guineas, a pair of pistols of exquisite workmanship, and a purse containing fifty guineas in cash and a twenty-five pounds banknote.
3. * [en]
***** Synonyms
- [en]
***** Translations
[weapon]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], ultimately from [en].
**** Noun
[Fusee_(horology)] [en-noun]
1. A conical , groove d pulley in early clock s, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.
2. * 1773 , [James Cook] , _The Journals_ , Second Voyage, 8 August:
3. *: To day when we attended the winding up of the watches the FUSEE of Mr Arnolds would not turn round and after several unsuccessfull tryals we were obliged to let it go down [...] .
4. A large friction match .
5. * 1914 , [Saki] , ‘The Dreamer’, _Beasts and Superbeasts_ , Penguin 2000 ( _Complete Short Stories_ ), page 322:
6. *: 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.
7. A fuse for an explosive .
8. [en] A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad .
***** Related terms
{{col3|en |fusiform<pos:adj> }}
*** Etymology 3
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who, or that which, fuse s or is fused ; an individual component of a fusion .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2002 | title=Philosophical Topics | volume=30 | issue=1 | page=276
|passage=This is the fusion of two people who are neurally and biologically
(and so, psychologically) identical. Setting aside issues about intensional
content, when these differ, such a fusion would clearly produce someone who is
exactly like what either of the FUSEES would have been like had the fusion not
occurred.}} <!--#* 2016, Josceline Fenton, _Steven Universe and The Crystal
Gems #2_ ([1681597578]) ostensibly also uses it-->
*** Anagrams
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