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noun
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
verb
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.