fur zen bushes

pl. Bot.: Ulex europe us. ( Britten & Holland .) "We put by gorse and furzen-bushes: we tread under. foot briers and brambles, though they catch hold of us." -P. Holland: Plutarch, p. 186. fürz-ý, a. [Eng. furz(e); -y.] Overgrown with furze. "Suffice it that their route was laid Acro the furzy hills of Braid." *fus, *fuse, a . willing. IMG:content-0252.png:[blocks in formation] A. In trans.: To hasten. "Fuse we alle to somne."- Layamon , iii. 101. B. Trans.: To hasten, to get ready. "Brutus hem to scipe fusede."-Layamon, i. 64. füse (1), s . [A shortened form of fusee (2) (q. v.).] A tube or casing filled with combustible material, and used for igniting a charge in a mine or a hollow projectile. The invention was undoubtedly contemporaneous with that of hollow projectiles. The following are the principal varieties of fuses in use: (1) The Bickford -fuse: Used for mining and submarine purposes. It consists of a small linen tube filled with gunpowder, the whole being covered with pitch. It burns at the rate of one yard in seventy seconds. (2) The Blasting - fuse , used in mining and quarrying. It is filled with a slow-burning composition, allowing time for the operatives to reach a place of safety before it burns down to the charge. It is also used for submarine blasting. (3) The Combination - fuse , for hollow projectiles, comprises a time-fuse and a percu ion or concu ion-fuse united in the same case. The former is designed to explode the charge in case the latter fails to act on striking. Another form is that in which the time-fuse explodes the percu ion-fuse. This variety is used with such explosives as dynamite and gun-cotton. (4) The Concu ion-fuse, for hollow projectiles; designed to explode the charge when the shell strikes an object. The Delayed - action - fuse , for use with common [A. S. fus ; Icel. fu .] Ready, shell against earthworks. It causes the projectile Scott: Marmion , iv. 23. "He wa fus to lernenn."- Ormulum , 16,997. fü-gain, s . (From the French.] 1. The spindle tree. 2. Very fine charcoal used as a drawing implement. [CHARCOAL.]