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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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   Fuming, a. Producing fumes, or vapors.
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   Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin. -- Fuming liquor of Libavius (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. -- Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric.
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