Found 2 items, similar to fume.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fume fume v 1: be mad, angry, or furious 2: emit a cloud of fine particles; “The chimney was fuming” [syn: smoke] 3: treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: fumigate] 4: be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: reek] fume n : a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fume Fume \Fume\ (f[=u]m), n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh[=u]ma smoke, dh[=u] to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy`ein to sacrifice, storm, rage, qy`mon, qy`mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf. OF. fum smoke, F. fum['e]e. Cf. Dust, n., Femerell, Thyme.] 1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. [1913 Webster] The fumes of new shorn hay. --T. Warton. [1913 Webster] The fumes of undigested wine. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South. [1913 Webster] 3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. [1913 Webster] A show of fumes and fancies. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. [1913 Webster] To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton. [1913 Webster] 5. (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate). [Webster 1913 Suppl.] In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster] 2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. [1913 Webster] Keep his brain fuming. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To pass off in fumes or vapors. [1913 Webster] Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne. [1913 Webster] 4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. [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, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes. [1913 Webster] Fume \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. [1913 Webster] She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To praise inordinately; to flatter. [1913 Webster] They demi-deify and fume him so. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor. [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]