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Definition of Fumes

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 Fumes from wikipedia

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- a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. It was intended to produce more heat and less smoke than...
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- emissions. According to another study from the same university, traffic fumes alone cause the death of 5,000 people every year just in the United Kingdom...
- hydrogen halide. At room temperature, it is a colorless gas, which forms white fumes of hydrochloric acid upon contact with atmospheric water vapor. Hydrogen...
- with the formula BF3. This pungent, colourless, and toxic gas forms white fumes in moist air. It is a useful Lewis acid and a versatile building block for...
- in Pasir Gudang of Johor in Malaysia. The illegal dumping released toxic fumes, affecting 6,000 people and hospitalising 2,775. Most of the victims were...