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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 'Steamed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Steamed" Quotes from Famous Books

... cold but clear and sparkling, and there was no motion to speak of; after the gale, and the great hills and valleys of the Atlantic roll in a storm, it seemed impossible it could be so smooth; but we are to have every experience of weather, as a fog came on and we steamed very slowly and blew fog signals for an hour! However, the sun broke forth and lifted the curtain of fog, and within a quarter of a mile we saw a beautiful iceberg twelve or fifteen hundred feet deep, they said, and so beautiful in its ultra marine colouring. ...

— The British Association's visit to Montreal, 1884: Letters • Clara Rayleigh

... was sea-sick when the Valhalla went out under steam, and they had such fun with the sailors and the two dogs that they were quite sorry when the ship once more steamed into port. ...

— Crusoes of the Frozen North • Gordon Stables

... the first grey hour of dawn that the train steamed into the station, which was the junction for Quebec, and passengers bound for the English settlements south of that city were ...

— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall

... hours of the high latitude,—evening only to us, for the sun was still high above the horizon. The spire of the Church of Our Saviour—three hundred feet high—appeared to stand against the sky. Palaces seemed to lift themselves above the sea as we steamed slowly towards the great ...

— ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands; - The Rhine to the Arctic • Hezekiah Butterworth

... girlie!" Sime conceded. "Certain financial interests would like to see a war. They're cookin' up these overt acts to get the people all steamed up till they're ready to fight. I'll go further, since you seem to know all about it anyway, and admit that I'm here to find out just who's back of all this. And how does all that tie up with you hiding in my mist-bath with a ...

— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl

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