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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



... there was, where various talk On various chapters passed the lingering hour, And thither oft he bent his evening walk, And warmed to mirth by wine's enlivening power. And oft on politics the preachments ran, If a pipe lent its thought-begetting fume: And oft important matters would they scan, And deep in council fix a nation's doom: And oft they chuckled loud at jest or jeer, Or bawdy tale the most, thilk much they ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... the Baron in a fume, Soon raise a mighty din, Whereon came butler, huntsman, groom, And ...
— Lover's Vows • Mrs. Inchbald
... was full of fumes. I looked around me. Mon Dieu! I staggered. For I knew that in this fume-laden room a thing more horrible and more strange than any within my experience ...
— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer
... Beetle's brolly. That must be about six feet. She's bung in the middle of King's big upper ten-bedder. Eligible central situation, I call it. She'll stink out his chaps, and Hartopp's and Macrea's, when she really begins to fume. I swear your Uncle Stalky is a great man. Do you realize what a ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... old banner-man, Ralph Genvil, "I see how the wind stirreth you; but you deceive yourselves if you think to make our young master, Sir Damian, a scape-goat for your light lady.—Nay, never frown nor fume, Sir Damian; if you know not your safest course, we know it for you.—Followers of De Lacy, throw yourselves on your horses, and two men on one, if it be necessary—we will take this stubborn boy in the ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott


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