The sentinel snapped his fusee at the commander, but it missed fire, and he retreated within the fort under a covered way.
He was rocking himself asleep with these flattering ideas, when the Marechaussee entered his chamber, and seized upon his double-charged fusee and his great sabre.
He fitted to the end of this fusee two electric wires previously freed of their insulator; then having verified the tie of the pulls of the distribution board, he hid the cartridge under a little lid of wood.
On the floor of the dark closet where all the electric gear of the house terminated, the bandit laid a sort of oblong fusee that he drew from his capacious cloak.
The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.
The fusee is a tapering shaft, in which a spiral groove has been cut from end to end.
It is then allowed a second turn, but if the weight now proves excessive something must be wrong, and the fuseeneeds its diameter reducing at that point.
The key is applied to the fusee, and the chain is wound off the drum on to the larger end of the fusee first.
Compensating fusee] "As an illustration of the lever action, and of work put into and got out of a machine, there is no better illustration than the ingenious contrivance termed the fusee (Fig.
The fusee does this in a most accurate and complete manner.
As the fusee to the right is to compensate for the loss of force of the spring as it uncoils itself, the chain is on the small diameter of the fusee when the watch is wound up, as the spring has then the greatest force.
In good watches and clocks, where the elastic force of a coiled spring is used to drive the works, the fusee compensates the gradually diminishing pull of the uncoiling spring.
He drew back for a moment, and waited till Lamport had lit his pipe and flung the end of his fusee away.
When Bill was scarce ten yards off, Lamport lighted a fusee and held it to his pipe.
He did not follow them himself until he had picked up and tossed a fusee into the fire.
He had hardly given it, the fusee had barely ceased to sputter, before a company doubled out on the open space behind the bonfire.
On the same arbor with the fusee is fixed the main wheel, which with the before-described contrivance of click and ratchet, permits the turning of the fusee or winding-up of the clock, while it itself remains stationary.
As the spring becomes gradually uncoiled, and the power exerted less, the leverage is increased in the same proportion by the increased width of the fusee on which it acts.
When this square is turned in winding, the fusee draws the chain or gut from off the outer edge of the barrel, and coils up the spring within it.
Taking a cigar from his case and nipping off the end, he rasps a fusee to light it.
He succeeds in getting hold of it, though not till the fusee has ceased flaming.
Then, as if to confirm the sincerity of his faith, he cast his fusee to the shore, and entered deeper into the water, where he again came to a stand, in order to see in what manner the Pawnee would receive his pledges of peace.
Riding to the farthest extremity of the sands, he cast his own fusee from him, and returned to the point whence he had started.
Nothing daunted he sought his fusee case; there was just one left in it.
Our brave commander, without asking anybody to follow him, gallops up close to them, and with his fusee knocks one of them off his horse, killed the second with his pistol, and the third ran away.
I ordered them to face to the right, and at the head of the centre file marched them immediately to the wicket-gate aforesaid, where I found a sentry posted who instantly snapped his fusee at me.
One of the enemy's officers boldly pressing in the rear, discharged his fusee at me; the ball whistled near me, as did many others that day.
The remembrance of that mysterious smell of a fusee flashed across Noaks's mind.
The abandonment of the key nullified the usefulness of the fusee, although some keyless fuseemovements were attempted.
What was the fusee that brought about such a change?
FUSEE CAP—A thin steel plate with a projecting nose on the smaller end of the fusee: a part of the mechanism to stop the fusee when the last coil of the chain is wound thereon.
FUSEE CHAIN—A very delicate steel chain connecting the barrel with the fusee of a watch, chronometer or clock.
The fusee was invented about the year 1525, at a time when the world was fairly alive with new ideas.
They usually have a fusee and a cylindrical balance spring.
TRAIN—The toothed wheels of a watch or clock which connect the barrel or fusee with the escapement.
The fusee has been abandoned in watches to allow of thinness, but is still used in chronometers and clocks.
When thefusee turned, the wheels also were forced to turn, and the watch was running.
They are still used for marine chronometers, some clocks, and the few fusee watches now made.
FUSEE SINK—The sink cut in the top plate of a watch to give space for the fusee.
GRUET—A Swiss who introduced chains for the fuseeinstead of catgut cord, in 1664.
This is the way in which it worked: The mainspring slowly turned the barrel; this gradually unwound the cord from the fusee and caused the fusee to turn.
Japanese Striking Clock with Spring, Fusee and Balance] Figure 18 represents a clock which is a work of art and shows great refinement of design in providing for the varying lengths of days.
But in the meantime the fusee at the car has set fire to various squibs and petards and crackers there, and the whole structure is speedily enveloped in fire and smoke, from which explosions issue every few moments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fusee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
