fuse

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FUSE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin fundo, fusum, to pour out.] To melt; to liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve. FUSE, verb intransitive To be melted; to be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat.
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