n. [ L. fumus; akin to Skr. dhūma smoke, dhū to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr.
The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
A show of fumes and fancies. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
To smother him with fumes and eulogies. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]
In a fume,
v. i.
Where the golden altar fumed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Silenus lay,
Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Keep his brain fuming. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
To fume away,
v. t.
She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
They demi-deify and fume him so. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
The heat will fume away most of the scent. Montimer. [ 1913 Webster ]
How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Cabinetwork) Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. Free from fumes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Arch.) See Femerell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. fumier dung, OF. femier, fr. L. fimus dung. ] The dung of deer. B. Jonson.
‖n. [ F. ] A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. Fumitory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]