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Definition of Fusees
1. fusee [n] - See also: fusee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fusees
Literary usage of Fusees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"Vermillion 0-l fusees for lighting cigars are made from strips of pulp or thin
card-board, previously prepared by steeping in solution of nitre. ..."
2. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1909)
"The doctor was busy preparing combustible fusees, which he wrapped up carefully
in silk paper. When cut in the centre they formed two cones, ..."
3. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1820)
"... and only five of them had fusees with them; the rest had pistols and swords,
indeed, but they were of small use to them. In this condition we lay, ..."
4. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1899)
"AND A STARTLING CURE FOR IT —COMBUSTIBLE fusees—FIRE AND BUTTER—PRAYERS, AGONY,
... The doctor was busy preparing combustible fusees, ..."
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