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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fume \fume\, v. i. imp. p. p. fumed; p. pr. vb. n.
fuming. cf. f. fumer, l. fumare to smoke. see fume, n.
1. to smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical
action; to rise up, as vapor.
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where the golden altar fumed. --milton.
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silenus lay,
whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
--roscommon.
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2. to be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
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keep his brain fuming. --shak.
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3. to pass off in fumes or vapors.
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their parts are kept from fuming away by their
fixity. --cheyne.
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4. to be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
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he frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
--dryden.
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while her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
--sir w.
scott.
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to fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to
storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
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see also:
fumed fuming fume to fume away
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fuming \fum"ing\, a.
producing fumes, or vapors.
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cadet's fuming liquid chem., alkarsin.
fuming liquor of libavius old chem., stannic chloride;
the chloride of tin, sncl4, forming a colorless, mobile
liquid which fumes in the air. mixed with water it
solidifies to the so-called butter of tin.
fuming sulphuric acid. chem. same as disulphuric acid,
uder disulphuric.
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see also:
cadet's fuming liquid fuming liquor of libavius sncl4 fuming sulphuric acid disulphuric acid disulphuric
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
84 moby thesaurus words for "fuming":
ablaze, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, aflame,
aflicker, aglow, airy, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, candent,
candescent, comburent, conflagrant, enraged, ethereal, fierce,
fighting mad, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, fumy,
furious, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing,
guttering, hopping mad, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow,
in a rage, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, infuriate,
infuriated, kindled, live, living, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic,
miasmic, on fire, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pneumatic,
rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, reeking, reeky,
roaring mad, savage, scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoky,
smoldering, sparking, steaming, steamy, storming, unextinguished,
unquenched, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory,
wild
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