also fuzee, type of light musket, 1660s, from pronunciation of French fusil (see fusilier). As the name of a type of match used in lighting cigars and pipes by 1832, from fusee as a variant of fuse (n.).
英英释意
1. a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring
2. a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains
3. a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind
4. any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
