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Fume   /fjum/   Listen
noun
Fume  n.  
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." "The fumes of undigested wine."
2.
Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
3.
Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. "A show of fumes and fancies."
4.
The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. "To smother him with fumes and eulogies."
5.
(Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).
In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.



verb
Fume  v. t.  
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."
2.
To praise inordinately; to flatter. "They demi-deify and fume him so."
3.
To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor. "The heat will fume away most of the scent." "How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!"



Fume  v. i.  (past & past part. fumed; pres. part. fuming)  
1.
To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor. "Where the golden altar fumed." "Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain."
2.
To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. "Keep his brain fuming."
3.
To pass off in fumes or vapors. "Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity."
4.
To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. "He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground." "While her mother did fret, and her father did fume."
To fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.






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"Fume" Quotes from Famous Books



... the waves Falter, lose heart, bow down like foes made slaves, And waxed within more bitter as they bowed, Baffling the sea, swallowing the sun with cloud, Devouring fast as fire on earth devours And hungering hard as frost that feeds on flowers, Clothed round with fog that reeked as fume from hell, And darkening with its miscreative spell Light, glad and keen and splendid as the sword Whose heft had known Othello's hand its lord, Spake all the soul that hell drew back to greet And felt its fire shrink shuddering from his feet. Far off the darkness darkened, and recoiled, ...
— Astrophel and Other Poems - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne, Vol. VI • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... showing retorts, apparatus, bottles of drugs, jars of specimens and large, coloured models of flowers and of the lower marine forms. Against the right hand wall were sinks, an incubator and, beyond, a door leading into a drug closet. There was the usual laboratory smell, in which the penetrating fume of alcohol, the smokiness of creosote and carbolic acid, the pungency of oil of clove and the aroma of Canada balsam struggled for ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... and lawless adventurers from time to time pushed southwest, even toward the borders of Texas and New Mexico, and strove to form little settlements, keeping the Spanish Governors and Intendants in a constant fume of anxiety. One of these settlements was founded by Philip Nolan, a man whom rumor had connected with Wilkinson's intrigues, and who, like many another lawless trader of the day, was always dreaming of ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt

... a visor ugley set on his face, Another hath on a vile counterfaite vesture, Or painteth his visage with fume in such case, That what he is, ...
— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson

... wrath, exasperation, dudgeon, ire, animosity, umbrage, resentment, passion, choler, displeasure, vexation, grudge, pique, flare-up, spleen, tiff, fume, offense, frenzy, tantrum, temper. ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


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