Of the fusil Nisbet writes: "The fusil is another Rhombular figure like the lozenge, but more long than broad, and its upper and lower points are more acute than the two side points.
Boyer says: "A fusil is a bearing in heraldry made in the form of a spindle, with its yarn or thread wound about it.
Its formation should be particularly attended to, as few painters or engravers make a sufficient distinction between the fusil and lozenge.
On the long and narrow fusil it would be impossible.
The difference between the fusil and the lozenge is well known to all heralds, though coach-painters and silversmiths do not {653} always sufficiently describe it.
To prevent suspicion, the officer in command had orders to make every sentinel he set or relieved in the night-time fire his fusil and to beat his drum at the usual hour.
I endeavoured to come within a fusil shot of him and was desirous to give him an opportunity to show his courage in boarding me, since I could not so well do the same by him, as being to the leeward.
One of the travellers, seeing himself without any thing to do, took his fusil and followed the course of this rivulet, in hopes of killing some game.
I took my fusil and pouch, according to my custom of never travelling without them.
After this the natives made a litter, and carried off their warrior, who died the {34} following night of his wounds, though the fusil was only charged with great shot.
Popular) Aller à la chasse avec un fusil de toile, to go a begging, “to cadge.
At any hour of the day or night they are ready for battle: they tend their cattle on horseback, lance in hand, fusil in sling, and sabre in belt.
The uncouthness of my garb, my wild and weatherworn appearance, my fusil and tomahawk, could not but startle them.
I instantly discovered that I held in my hand the fusil which I had left with you on parting, with which your uncle had equipped himself, and which had been ravished from him by a savage.
This hesitation vanished, and, placing my tomahawk and fusilupon the ground, I prepared to leap.
Five escaped, and one of these secured his retreat by wresting your fusil from your uncle and shooting him dead.
Had not my fusilbeen found in the hands of an enemy?
Before our companion could be rescued or revenged, the assassin, with the remnant of the troop, disappeared, and bore away with him the fusil as a trophy of his victory.
Besides, the fusil which had been given me by Sarsefield, and which I had so unexpectedly recovered, had lost none of its value in my eyes.
Fusil demi-boucanier was the same kind, with a shorter barrel.
The half-caste hunters, formed in a single compact troop, advanced, fusil on thigh and finger on trigger, with eye and ear on the watch.
Not a cry awoke the solitude--not the flash of a fusil lit up the darkness of the twilight.
Saying these words the sentry turned his fusil in his hands; and, rushing towards the corpses, did not leave off thrusting till he had passed his bayonet two or three times through each of them.
We took the guns and ammunition of our vanquished opponents, leaving them only one fusilfor every ten men, with a number of cartridges sufficient to prevent their starving on their return home.
Two or three more shots were fired with like effect; and the fusil of Pouchskin was next called into requisition, and brought to bear upon the nest.
Alexis, meanwhile, had dropped his rifle and taken up the fusil of Pouchskin.
Hang up my sword and fusil over your chimney-place, and tell your children, twenty years hence, how they were won.
Methinks I saw the muzzle of a fusil sticking out of the coach.
