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■fay tlic motion of the fufee, and that by the motion of tiie 
jpring': the whole frame of the watch carries a reafon- 
abtenefs in it, the pafTive imprefiion of the iiitellei 5 lt!al 
idea that was in the artiff. Hak .—A firelock, [from Jiifit, 
Fr.] a fniall neat mufquet. This is more properly writ¬ 
ten jujit. 
FU'SEE, f. Track of a buck. Ainfworlk. 
FU'Si (Anthony), a, French catholic priefi, born in 
Lorrain, towards the end of the fixteenth century. He 
entered young among the Jefuits, but did not continue 
long in their connedtion. Afterwards he purfued his 
fiudics in the uuiverfity of Lorrain, where he took his de¬ 
grees in theology, and tlten removed to Paris, where he 
leceived the bonnet of doctor from the fac\;lty of the Sor- 
bonne. In that city lie was preferred to the benefice of 
Si. Bartholomew, with the annexed cures of St. I.eit and 
St. Giles ; and he liad alfo the appointments of apoftolical 
prothonotary, and of preacher and confetFor in the royal 
lioiireliold, He appears to have indulged a greater libe- 
faliiy of opinion than could be tolerated by bigoted ca- 
tliolics, and to have advanced fentiments concerning the 
falvation of children who died v./ithout baptifm, and on 
other topics, which were made the fubjects of complaint 
againft him before his eccle.fia(iical fuperiors. Fufi was 
alfo an enemy to perfecution for confcience fake, and free- 
ly expofed to his parlP.'.loners the iniquitiy and folly of at¬ 
tempting to make converts to truth by force and violence, 
urging tliem, by deeds of chrihian charity, and their own 
exemplary lives, to invite delutied wanderers into the pale 
of the church. He entertained, however, a thorough dif- 
like to the Jefuits, and would never fuffer any of that 
fraternity to enter his pulpit ; with that formidable and 
revengeful body, therefore, he became an objedl of deep 
refentment, and they refolved to ruin him. By theirina- 
nagement the churchwardens of St. Lett were induced to 
inflitute a criminal procefs againft him in 1609, in which 
they accufed him of lewdnefs, lierefy, and w'itchcra.^'t. 
Wlirle the fuit was pending, :i fatirical piece, entitled 
Majl.igopliore, on Precurfenr dc Zodiaq.ue, &c. made its ap¬ 
pearance, intended to riJicule Nicholas Vivian, firit 
churchwarden of St. Leu, atid the principal infirument in 
carrying on tlte procefs againd Fufi. This piece being 
attributed to Fufi, Vivian commenced a profccntion 
againd him as the author, and iiaving obtained a decree 
of arred, he fent him !o the prifon of the Chatelet, in 
j 6 i 2 . His caufe was tried in the bidiop’s court, where 
he was pronounced guilty of the libel, and ofherefy ; 
and was alfo adjudged to be deprived of his benefice.s, in- 
terdidfed from the difeharge of any ecclefiadica! function, 
and to make reparation to Vivian. Againd this fentence 
he appealed to the parliament j but there it was confirmed 
by an arret in the fame year. At lengtli, after remain¬ 
ing in different pfifons between fonr and five years, and 
niakittg fatisfadtion to Vivian, lie was fet at liberty ; upon 
which he vvitlidrevv to Geneva, where he embraced the 
protedant religion in 1619. The time of his death is un¬ 
certain. Belides the Madigopliore, he was the author 
of an account of his cafe, entitled Fadum pour M. Antoine 
Fuji., Dodeur en Theologie, &c. ‘/.'TO. and or a large volume 
in odtavo, 1619, employed in deferibing t-he abufes and 
crimes of the church of Rome. This work was entitled 
Lc Franc Archer de la vrak. EgUJ'e, centre ks Abus & Enormith 
de la jaiijfe, par noble Antoine Fuji, jadis Protonotaire-apofloli- 
que, DoElcur SorboniJIe, PredicaUur £? ConfcJJiur de la Maijbn 
du Roi, Cure des Eglifes, &c. Prefixed to it is An Roi de la 
Grandc-Rretagne,- Jacques'!. Remonjlrance apologetique fur 
Enormites & Abus demefurfs, .itteutatsFB Inbumanitls, du Chef 
de la fmjfe EgLiJJ'e & de fes Suppots, centre Us vrais C 3 legi¬ 
times Eufans de la Vr.aic, 
FTJ'SIBLE, adj. Capable of being melted ; capable of 
being made liquid by heat.—Colours afforded by metal¬ 
line bodies, eitlier colliquate with, or otherwife pene- 
irate into, other bodies, efpecialIyyi^/ 7 W^ ones. Buyk. 
FUSIBI'LITY, yi Capacity of being melted ; quality 
cf growing liquid by heat.—The bodies of mod ufe, that 
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are fought for out of the depths of the earth, are t'he me¬ 
tals, wliicli are didinguiflied from ether bodies by their 
'f/FiqJt, J'uftbility, and malleablenefs. Locke. 
FU'SILE, adj. ZflifiU, Fr. fujilis, Lat.] Capable tf 
being melted; liquefiable by lieat^'—Some, lefs fkiiful, 
fancy rhefe f'capi that occur in mod of the larger gothic 
btuldings of England are artificial ; and will have it, tliat 
they are a kind of fujile marble. IVooduoard .—Running by 
the force,of heat: 
Perpetual flames. 
O’er fand and adies, and the dubborn flint, 
Prevailing, turn into a Jvf.kica. Philips, 
\_fijfil, Fr.] A firelock; a finall neat muf- 
quet. [In heraldry; fromy^wj-, L.it.] Somef iiing like a 
fpindle.— FiJ/ils mud be made long, and fmall in the mid¬ 
dle, in the.ancient coat of Montagtie, argent three/tf/Ffi- 
in fede gules. Peacham, 
FUSILI'ER, f. A Foldier armed with a fufil; a muf- 
keteer. 
P'U'SION, y. \_fujio,\AX. fujion, Fr.] The act of melt¬ 
ing. The ftate ct being melted, or of t unning with heat. 
—Metals in fufion go not flame for want of a copious fume, 
except I'peher, which furues copioully, and tliereby 
flames. Newton. 
The origin of the art of fufing.metals, is carried back 
by Mr. Bryant to the remote era of th.e Cyclopians. “ The 
Idxi Dactyli, (fays he,) were Cyclopians; and they are 
laid to have fird forged metals, and to have reduced them 
to common tile; the knowledge of which art they obtain¬ 
ed from the fufion of minerals at the burning of mount 
Ida. From this event the Cmeies, and Corybanres, who 
were the fame as the Idmi Dadfyli, are fuppofed to liave 
learnt the mydery of fufing and forging metals.” 
FUSS, y A ttmuih ; a buftle. A low cant word i 
End as it befits your dation ; 
Come to life and application; 
Nor with fenates keep a fuj's: 
1 lubniit, and anfwer thus. Swift. 
FUS ]', y [fujle, Fr.] The trunk or body of a column. 
A firong fnieii, as tliat of a mouldy barrel. 
To FUST, v.n. To grow mouldy ; to fmell ill. 
FUS'lTAN,y [fytaitie, Fr. from fufe, a tree, be- 
caufc cotton grows on trees.] A kind of cloth made of 
linen and-cotton, andpeihaps now of cotton only.—Is 
flipper ready, the iioufe trimm’d, tlie fervingmen in their 
new J'uftian, and iheir white dockings ? Shakejpeare .—A 
high fwelling kind of writing, made up of heterogeneous 
parts, or ef words and ideas ill adbeiated ; boinbad.— 
Fujlian is thoughts and words ill forted, and without tlie 
lead relation to each o-ther. Dryden. 
Chance thoughts, when govern’d by the clofe. 
Oft rife to fujlian, or defcer.d to proCe. Smith. 
By the law of England, no perfon ftiall drefs fudians 
with any other indrumeiu than the broad (lieers, under tlie 
penalty of twenty fhillmgs. And the madera'iid wardens 
of the company of clothworkers in London, &c. have 
piowerto fearch the wmi kmanthip of flieermen, as well for 
fudian, as cloth. iiHen.Vll.c. 27,. 39 £02. c. 13. 
FUS'TIAN, adj. Made of fudian. Swelling; unna¬ 
turally pompous; ridiculouliy tumid. Ufed of fiile.— 
Virgil, if he could have feen the fird veriesof the Sylva;, 
would have thought Statius mad in h.KJ'uJfjan dcj'cnpiiou 
of tl'.e ftatue on the brazen horfe. Dryden. 
When men argue, th’ greated jeart 
O’ th’ contc.ft falls on terms oi art, 
Until Cr.p. fujlian duff be fper.t. 
And then they fall to th’ argumeiit. Uudibras. 
FUSI'FORM, adj. [fufformis, NSm fujhs, Tax. a fpin- 
die.] In botany, it means a fufitorm or Ipiiidle-diaped 
root ; fimple, or generally fo, tapering downwards to a 
point: as in raddifii, carrot, partnep. 11 applies alio to 
liie leaf, as in craU'ula rubens, kc. 
FUS'TIC. 
