ppl. a. [f. FUSE v.2 + -ED1.] Liquefied by heat, melted.
1699. Salmon, Pharm. Bateana (1713), 144/1. Fine cleanly powder’d fus’d Salt.
a. 1763. Byrom, Verses intended to have been Spoken, v. 10. The Forge wherein his fused Metals flow’d.
1837. Brewster, Magnet., 140. He used a cylindrical needle of fused steel.
1878. Huxley, Physiography, 213. The fused rocks in the depths of the earth, which are vomited forth by volcanoes, are forced to the surface as liquids, and then take on the solid form.
fig. 1855. H. Spencer, Princ. Psychol. (1870), I. II. ii. 178. The fused set of sounds we call a word.
1876. T. Douse, Grimm’s Law, § 30, 63. If the dialects, after incipient divergence, again become completely fused, one form drives out the other or others.
b. Of the blood: Attenuated, thin.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 372. How are we to account for that crude, fused, or dissolved state of the blood?
