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Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.

A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.

A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] Blount.

A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.

A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil. [R.]

Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.

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

A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse.

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. [Obs.]

A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.

lying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

The quality of being fusible.

CapabIe of being melted or liquefied. Fusible metal, any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water. Ure. -- Fusible plug (Steam Boiler), a piece of easily fusible alloy,…

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward.

Same as Fusil, a.

Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:

A simultaneous discharge of firearms.

or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

Handy; reat; handsome; notable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.