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verb

Steam v. t.

To exhale. (Obs.)

To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

Steam v. i. (past & past part. steamed; pres. part. steaming)

To emit steam or vapor. "My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air." "Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming with fire intense."

To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor. "The dissolved amber... steamed away into the air."

To move or travel by the agency of steam. "The vessel steamed out of port."

To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.

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Etymology of 'Steaming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Steaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... begin with the western trip to Pauel do Mar, affording a grand prospect of basaltic pillars and geological dykes, and of the three features—rocky, sylvan, and floral. Steaming by the mouth of the wady or ravine Sao Joao, whose decayed toy forts, S. Lazaro and the palace-battery, are still cumbered with rusty cannon, we pass under the cliff upon whose brow stand some of the best buildings. These are the Princess ...

— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

... desert them the temperature falls abruptly, there being little or nothing of earth or rock to conserve the heat poured out during the day. The mountaineers, therefore, soon after night closed in, found it necessary to shut the door of their cabin, where they roused up the fire, quaffed their steaming coffee, and smoked their pipes, in joyful ...

— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... I spoke, I felt myself turn pale; for I could see the brown monsters crowding to shore, and the red glitter of their cruel eyes and the hot breath steaming ...

— Monsieur Maurice • Amelia B. Edwards

... to proceed to the State of Missouri, with as little delay as possible, I at once engaged a passage to St. Louis, and the following morning was steaming in the direction of the falls of St. Anthony. The passengers in this boat employed themselves nearly the whole of the route at games of cards, faro being the favourite. This predilection for gambling, ...

— An Englishman's Travels in America - His Observations Of Life And Manners In The Free And Slave States • John Benwell

... found the voyagers on board the Ladoga, and, after much pulling and hauling, clear of the docks, and steaming down ...

— Fred Markham in Russia - The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar • W. H. G. Kingston

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