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Fusil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
  • (v. t.) Running or flowing, as a liquid.
  • (v. t.) Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.
  • (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
  • (n.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Side effects, mainly burning and smarting were noted by the investigators in 8 and 11 patients treated by fusilic acid and rifamycin respectively.

Fusilier


Definition:

  • (n.) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
  • (n.) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adebolajo and Adebowale hit Fusilier Rigby , 25, in a car before hacking him to death near Woolwich barracks in south-east London on 22 May 2013.
  • (2) The Allied troops who rushed the beaches here 100 years ago, wrote Captain Richard Willis of the First Battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers – who went on to win a Victoria Cross that day – were little more than “target practice for the concealed Turks”.
  • (3) The base has been reinforced with further troops from 2 Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, who were drafted in “to bolster security and reassure the local population” according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
  • (4) Relatives of Fusilier Rigby said justice had been served after Adebolajo was given the whole-life term, which condemns him to die behind bars.
  • (5) By contrast, keen golfer Prince Andrew spent £14,692 on a charter flight from Farnborough to Scotland, to visit the Royal Highland Fusiliers, and also take in the Open Championship at Muirfield.
  • (6) Among the other soldiers who were found at the same time were a Northumberland Fusilier, another six Royal Scottish Fusiliers and a member of the York and Lancaster regiment.
  • (7) In a statement to the House of Commons, Hammond said five battalions would disappear in the reorganisation – the 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, 2nd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire regiment, 3dr Battalion the Mercian Regiment and the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh.
  • (8) • May 2013: Fusilier Lee Rigby murdered by two Islamist extremists in Woolwich , south London.
  • (9) I will then also have to explain to my Fusiliers in a fully manned battalion why they are likely to be posted to battalions that cannot recruit.
  • (10) All our thoughts are with the victims and the families of those who have been affected.” The attack came less than three weeks before Britain’s general election on 8 June and on the anniversary of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
  • (11) As the government prepares for the publication on Tuesday morning of the official inquiry into the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby last year , Theresa May announced that the legislation would also place a statutory duty on schools, colleges, prisons and local councils to help prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
  • (12) • MPs have called on the government to reverse plans to close 2nd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (2RRF), in a Commons vote.
  • (13) Rigby, from Langley, in Middleton, Greater Manchester, served with 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and was attached to the regimental recruiting team when he was hacked to death in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon in Woolwich, south-east London.
  • (14) He was on his first tour of duty with 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and was one of the youngest members of the battle group when he was killed attempting to save his section commander during a Taliban attack.
  • (15) The Electoral Commission again apologised to the family of the murdered fusilier for allowing Britain First to put "Remember Lee Rigby" on voting slips in this month's European elections , and said it was tightening up its system of checks to ensure a similar mistake is never repeated.
  • (16) Fusilier Rigby's murderers were found guilty yesterday by a jury in a court of law after an open trial.
  • (17) Despite many showing immense bravery – famously, half a dozen Victoria Crosses were won “before breakfast” on the first day of the Gallipoli landings by officers and men from the First Battalion, Royal Lancashire Fusiliers, who lost all but 21 of their first 200 men ashore – the allies were unable to make good their advance.
  • (18) The long-awaited intelligence committee report into the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby essentially clears the intelligence agencies of blame in failing to prevent the attack by two Islamist jihadist killers but throws up controversial issues, especially the role of internet companies.
  • (19) After the London bombings in 2005 and the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013, it was fair to question what the police and MI5 knew in advance and what, if anything, they could have done to stop it.
  • (20) Cage drew a parallel with Michael Adebolajo, jailed for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, and claimed he too had been harassed, under pressure to become an informer and, in turn, radicalised.

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