fusile, fusIl

[Lat. fusil is, from fusus, pa. par. of fun do to pour, to melt; Fr. & Ital. fusile.] 1. Capable of being fused or melted; fusible. "Some, le skillful, fancy these scapi that occur in most of the larger Gothic buildings of England are artificial: and will have it that they are a kind of fusil marble."-Woodward. 2. Formed by melting or casting. "First his own tools; then, what might else be wrought Fusile, or graven in metal."- Milton: P. L., xi. 573. 3. Running or flowing, as melted metals; liquid. "As iron fusile from the furnace flows." Brome: Battle of the Gods and Titans. füş-il-eër', füş-il-iër', s . [Eng. fusil (1); -ier, -eer.] Mil .: Formerly a soldier armed with a fusil, as distinguished from a pikeman or archer. The title is still borne by several regiments in the Brit . ish army; as, the Royal fusiliers , Welsh fusiliers , "There he was soon joined by a detachment of two hundred fusileers , whom Mackay had sent forward to secure the pa ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii.