fusée, n.f., spindleful, bobbinful; (vet.) splint, splinter; (surg.) fistula; (artil., her., horl.) fusee; rocket; (of oars) dolphin; barrel (of a kitchen-jack). — d’amorce; (artil.) tube. — courante; line-rocket or sky-rocket. — porte amarre; (nav.) life-saving apparatus. Avoir une — à démêler avec quelqu’un; to have a bone to pick with anyone. Une — volante; a sky-rocket.
fuséen, n.m., (artil.) rocket-gunner.
fuselé, -e, adj., slender, tapering, spindle-shaped.
fuser, v.n., to expand, to spread (insensibly); to liquefy, to dissolve, to meet; (fig.) to unite.
fusibilité, n.f., fusibility.
fusible, adj., fusible.
fusiforme, adj., (bot.) spindle-shaped, fusiform.
fusil (-zi), n.m., steel (to strike a light; to sharpen knives); tinder-box; musket, gun. Pierre à —; flint. Il fut tué d’un coup de —; he was killed by a musket shot. Un coup de —; a gun-shot, musket shot, report of a gun. — à deux coups; double-barreled gun. — de chasse; fowling-piece. — de munition; musket. — à piston; percussion-gun. — à vent; air-gun. — à aiguille; needle-gun. Canon de —; gun-barrel. Portée de —; musket range. À portée de —; within musket range.
fusilier, n.m., fusileer.
*fusillade, n.f., discharge or volley of musketry, firing, shooting.