Noun
a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

Verb
be wet with sweat or blood, as of one''s face

Verb
be mad, angry, or furious

Verb
treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests

Verb
emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"

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n.
Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.

n.
Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.

n.
Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.

n.
The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

n.
To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.

n.
To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

n.
To pass off in fumes or vapors.

n.
To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To praise inordinately; to flatter.

v. t.
To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.

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Fume

Fume , n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dhma smoke, dh to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. to sacrifice, storm, rage, , , thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf. OF. fum smoke, F. fum'82e. 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.

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. South. 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.

In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

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.

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 pre 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 tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

Fume

Fume, e. 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!

Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.

To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.

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.