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   Fume , n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dhūma smoke, dhū to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. θύειν to sacrifice, storm, rage, θύμον, θύμος, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf. OF. fum smoke, F. fumée.  Cf. Dust, n., Femerell, Thyme.]
   Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
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   The fumes of new shorn hay.
   T. Warton.
   
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   The fumes of undigested wine.
   Dryden.
   
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   Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
   South.
   
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   Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
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   A show of fumes and fancies.
   Bacon.
   
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   The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
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   To smother him with fumes and eulogies.
   Burton.
   
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   (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).
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   In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
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   Fume, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fumed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fuming.] [Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See Fume, n.]
   To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
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   Where the golden altar fumed.
   Milton.
   
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   Silenus lay,
   Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
   Roscommon.
   
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   To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
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   Keep his brain fuming.
   Shak.
   
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   To pass off in fumes or vapors.
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   Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.
   Cheyne.
   
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   To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
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   He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
   Dryden.
   
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   While her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   To fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
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   Fume, v. t.
   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.
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   She fumed the temple with an odorous flame.
   Dryden.
   
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   To praise inordinately; to flatter.
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   They demi-deify and fume him so.
   Cowper.
   
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   To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
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   The heat will fume away most of the scent.
   Montimer.
   
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   How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!
   Young.
   
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