FUSE

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

2.
v.

To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new. Tennyson.

3.
v.

To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

4.
v.

To be blended, as if melted together. Fusing point, the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion.

5.
n.

A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.