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Definition of Fume

Fume
Fume Fume, n. (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).
Fume
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. --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 pre 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 tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
Fume
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. 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.

Meaning of Fume from wikipedia

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