fusus

(Lat. =a spindle.] Zool.: A genus of Gasteropod a, family Muricide. Shell, fusiform; canal, long, straight; operculum, ovate curved; nucleus, apicol. Known recent species, 184; fo il, 320; these latter, perhaps, from the Bath Oolite, or at least the Gault, to the Eocene, Fusus or Chrysodomus antiquus , is the Buckie and Roaring Buckie of Scotland. [BUCKIE.] Fusus colo eus and F. proboscidalis are of large size. IMG:content-0257.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Trifling, worthle , empty, of no weight or im3. Vain, usele , of no effect. portance. For the difference between futile and trifling , see TRIFLING.