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]