fume /ˈfjum/
臭氣,煙,激怒(vt.)熏(vi.)冒煙
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. --T. Warton.
The fumes of undigested wine. --Dryden.
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. --Bacon.
4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton.
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.
Fume, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fumed p. pr. & vb. n. Fuming.]
1. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton.
Silenus lay,
Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon.
2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
Keep his brain fuming. --Shak.
3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.
Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne.
4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden.
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. --Sir W. Scott.
To fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
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. --Dryden.
2. To praise inordinately; to flatter.
They demi-deify and fume him so. --Cowper.
3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
The heat will fume away most of the scent. --Montimer.
How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! --Young.
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fume
n : a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke]
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]