Obs. exc. Hist. [a. F. fusil (pronounced füzi): see FUSIL2.] A light musket or firelock.

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1661.  Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. App. 430. Horsemen well appointed with … carabines, musquetoons, or fuzees.

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1705.  S. Sewall, Diary, 26 March (1870), II. 127. A souldier from Deerfield accompanied us with his Fusee.

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1760.  Chron., in Ann. Reg., 82/1. A handsome double barrell’d fuzee valued at twelve or fifteen guineas.

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a. 1813.  A. Wilson, Foresters, Poet. Wks. (1846), 211. His light fuzee across his shoulder thrown.

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  † b.  One who is armed with a fusee; a fusilier.

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1650.  A. B., Mutat. Polemo, 29. That brave Gallant number of Fusees were squandred all to peices, knockt o’ the head, or starved.

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