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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fuming \Fum"ing\, a. Producing fumes, or vapors. {Cadet's fuming liquid} (Chem.), alkarsin. {Fuming liquor of Libsvius} (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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