fume
noun
- gaseous mixture of chemical substances
verb
- to be in a state of excited irritation or anger
- mode of speaking
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /fjuːm/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.
- A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
“Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.”
“the fumes of new-shorn hay”
- A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
“Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.”
- Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
“The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.”
“In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume.”
- Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
“a show of fumes and fancies”
- The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
“to smother him with fumes and eulogies”
- A passionate person.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.
- To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
- To apply or offer incense to.
“Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.”
- To emit fumes.
“where the golden altar fumed”
“Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...]”
- To pass off in fumes or vapours.
“whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]”
- To express or feel great anger.
“He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.”
“He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.”
- To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
“Keep his brain fuming.”