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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 fuse. See Fuse, n.

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.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

To pour round; to spread round. His army circumfused on either wing. Milton.

istinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

In a confused manner.

A state of confusion. Norris.

Confusedly; obscurely. [Obs.]

To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.

extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell.

Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.

In a diffuse manner.

The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.

One who, or that which, diffuses.

Poured out freely; profuse. [Obs.] So should our joy be very effuse. Barrow.

Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent. Gray.