What does "fuse" mean?
Fuse: To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new. Tennyson.
Additional senses
- 2.To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
- 3.To be blended, as if melted together. Fusing point, the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion.
- 4.A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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