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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains [syn: fusee, fuzee]
2: a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind [syn: fusee, fuzee]
3: any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant [syn: fuse, fuze, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

US var. of FUSEE.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fuse Fuse, n. [For fusee, fusil. See 2d Fusil.] (Gunnery, Mining, etc.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. --Farrow.