Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FU'SIL
FU'SIL, n. [s as z. Fr. from L. fusus, fundo.]
- A light musket or firelock.
- A bearing in heraldry of a rhomboidal figure, named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle. Encyc.
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