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FUZE or FusE, an appliance for firing See also:

EXPLOSIVES

explosives in See also:

BLASTING

blasting operations, military shells, &c. (see BLASTING and See also:

AMMUNITION

AMMUNITION, § See also:

Shell). The spelling is not governed by authority, but See also:

MODERN

modern convenience has dictated the See also:

ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption of the " z " by military See also:

ENGINEERS, MILITARY

engineers as a See also:

general See also:

RULE

rule, in See also:

order to distinguish this sense from that of melting by See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat (see below). The word, according to the New See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary, is one of the forms in which the See also:

LAT

Lat. fusus, spindle, has been adapted through Romanic into English, the See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary fuze taking the shape of a spindle-like See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube. Similarly the See also:

TERM

term "fusee" (Fr. fusee, spindle full of See also:

TOW

tow, See also:

LATE

Late Lat. fusata) is applied to a coned spindle sometimes used in the See also:

wheel See also:

TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train of watches and See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring clocks to equalize the See also:

ACTION

action of the mainspring (see See also:

WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

WATCH); and the application of the same term to a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of match may also be due to its resemblance to a spindle. Again, in See also:

HERALDRY

heraldry, another See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, " fusil," derived through the See also:

French from a Late Lat. diminutive (fusillus or fusellus) of this same fuses, is used of a bearing, an elongated See also:

LOZENGE (from the Fr. losenge, or losange; the word also appears in Span. losanje, and Ital. losanga; perhaps derived from a word meaning a stone slab laid on a grave, which appears in forms such as Provencal lousa, Span. losa, the ultimate origin of whic

lozenge. According to other etymological authorities, however (see See also:

SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat, Etym. Dict., 1898), " fuze " or " fuse," and " fusee " in the sense of match, are all forms derived through the Fr. fusil, from Late Lat. focile, See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel for striking See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire from a See also:

flint, from Lat. See also:

FOCUS (Latin for " hearth " or " fireplace ")

focus, See also:

HEARTH (a word which appears in various forms in several Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch haard, German Herd, in the sense of " floor ")

hearth. The Fr. fusil and English " fusil " were thus transferred to the " firelock," i.e. the See also:

LIGHT

light See also:

MUSKET (Fr. mousquet, Ger. Muskete, &c.)

musket of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century (see See also:

FUSILIER

FUSILIER). In See also:

electrical See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering a " fuse " (always so spelled) is a safety See also:

DEVICE

device, commonly consisting of a See also:

STRIP

strip or See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire of easily fusible See also:

metal, which melts and thus interrupts the See also:

CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit of which it forms See also:

PART

part, whenever that circuit, through some See also:

accident or derangement, is caused to carry a current larger than that for Which it is intended. In this sense the word must be connected with fusus, the past participle of Lat. fundere, to pour, whence comes the verb " fuse," to melt by heat, often used figuratively in the sense of blend, mix.

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