
Noah Webster
Transfuse
TRANSFUSE, verb transitive transfu'ze. [Latin transfusus, transfundo; trans and fundo.]
1. To pour, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
2. To transfer, as blood, from one animal to another.
3. To cause to pass from one to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism from one to another; to transfuse a love of letters.