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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Fusee \Fu*see"\, n.
1. (Railroads) A signal used principally for the protection
of trains, consisting of a tube filled with a composition
which burns with a bright colored light for a definite
time.
Fusee \Fu*see"\, n. [See 2d {Fusil}, and cf. {Fuse}, n.]
1. A flintlock gun. See 2d {Fusil}. [Obs.]
2. A fuse. See {Fuse}, n.
3. A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.
Fusee \Fu*see"\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
The track of a buck. --Ainsworth.
Fusee \Fu*see"\, n. [F. fus['e]e a spindleful, fusee, LL.
fusata, fr. fusare to use a spindle, L. fusus spindle.]
(a) The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed
to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the
chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a
spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner
that the diameter of the cone at the point where the
chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of
the spring.
(b) A similar wheel used in other machinery.
资料来源 : WordNet®
fusee
n 1: a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the
diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring [syn: {fusee
drive}]
2: a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and
trains [syn: {fuzee}]
3: a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in
the wind [syn: {fuzee}]
4: any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a
propellant [syn: {fuse}, {fuze}, {fuzee}, {primer}, {priming}]