Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Arquebus \Ar"que*bus\, Arquebuse \Ar"que*buse\ (?; 277), n. [F.
   arquebuse, OF. harquebuse, fr. D. haak-bus; cf. G.
   hakenb["u]chse a gun with a hook. See {Hagbut}.]
   A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a
   trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket
   was a later invention. [Written also {harquebus}.]