From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fume \Fume\ (f[=u]m), noun [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh[=u]ma smoke, dh[=u] to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy'ein to sacrifice, storm, rage, qy'mon, qy'mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf. OF. fum smoke, F. fum['e]e. Cf. {Dust}, noun, {Femerell}, {Thyme}.]
1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
The fumes of new shorn hay. --T. Warton.
The fumes of undigested wine. --Dryden.
2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South.
3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
A show of fumes and fancies. --Bacon.
4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton.
5. (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{In a fume}, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fume \Fume\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fuming}.] [Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See {Fume}, noun]
1. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton.
Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon.
2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
Keep his brain fuming. --Shak.
3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.
Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne.
4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden.
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. --Sir W. Scott.
{To fume away}, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fume \Fume\, verb (used with an object)
1. To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. --Dryden.
2. To praise inordinately; to flatter.
They demi-deify and fume him so. --Cowper.
3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
The heat will fume away most of the scent. --Montimer.
How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! --Young.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: {smoke}]
verb
2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming" [syn: {smoke}]
3: treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: {fumigate}]
4: be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: {reek}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
285 Moby Thesaurus words for "fume": achromatize, ado, aerate, aerify, afterdamp, agitation, anhydrate, aroma, ash, ashes, atomize, be livid, be pissed, blackdamp, blanch, blast-freeze, bleach, blow, blow a gasket, blow up, bluster, bobbery, boil, boil over, boiling, brand, brawl, breath, breathe out, brine, bristle, broil, brouhaha, browned off, burn, bustle, cacophony, calx, carbon, carbonate, carry on, chafe, chaos, charcoal, chlorinate, chokedamp, churn, cinder, clinker, cloud, coal, coke, commotion, conturbation, cure, damp, decolor, decolorize, definite odor, dehydrate, desiccate, detectable odor, dim, discolor, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distill, disturbance, drain, drain of color, dross, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, dudgeon, dull, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, effluvium, emanation, embalm, embroilment, emit, essence, etherify, etherize, etiolate, evacuate, evaporate, excitement, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, explode, fade, fanaticism, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fetid air, fever, feverishness, fidgets, firedamp, flap, flare up, flatus, flavor, flip out, fluid, fluidize, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foam, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fractionate, fragrance, freeze, freeze-dry, frenzy, fret, fumes, fumigate, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gas, gasify, give off, give out, give vent to, go on, have a conniption, high dudgeon, hubbub, huff, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, hydrogenate, inquietude, irradiate, jerk, jitters, jumpiness, kipper, lava, let out, maelstrom, malaise, malaria, marinade, marinate, mephitis, miasma, miff, moil, mummify, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, odor, open the floodgates, open the sluices, oxygenate, pale, pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, perfume, peroxide, perturbation, pet, pickle, pique, pissed off, pollution, preservatize, puff, puff of smoke, quick-freeze, racket, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, redolence, reek, refrigerate, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruckus, ruffle, rumpus, salt, savor, scent, scoria, season, seethe, seething, send out, simmer, sizzle, slag, smell, smog, smoke, smoke-cure, smolder, smoulder, smudge, smut, soot, spoor, spray, steam, stench, stew, stink, stir, storm, storminess, stuff, sublimate, sublime, subtle odor, sullage, sweat, swirl, swirling, swivet, take on, tarnish, tempestuousness, throw a fit, throw off, tiff, tizzy, to-do, tone down, trace, trail, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, vapor, vaporize, volatile, volatilize, vortex, wash out, water vapor, whiff, whirl, whiten, wildness, yeastiness, zeal, zealousness
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