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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; <as>as, the fumes of passion</as>.</def>

<i>South.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or' airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.</def>

<blockquote>A show of fumes and fancies. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.</def>

<blockquote>To smother him with <b>fumes</b> and eulogies. <i>Burton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>In a fume</col>, <cd>in ill temper, esp. from impatience.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fume</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Fume</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fumed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fuming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fumer</ets>, L. <ets>fumare</ets> to smoke. See <er>Fume</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.</def>

<blockquote>Where the golden altar <b>fumed</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay <b>fuming</b> to his brain. <i>Roscommon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.</def>

<blockquote>Keep his brain <b>fuming</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To pass off in fumes or vapors.</def>

<blockquote>Their parts pre kept from <b>fuming</b> away by their fixity. <i>Cheyne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.</def>

<blockquote>He frets, he <b>fumes</b>, he stares, he stamps the ground. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>While her mother did fret, and her father did <b>fume</b>. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To tame away</col>, <cd>to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fume</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Fume</hw>, <tt>e. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; <as>as, to bleach straw by <ex>fuming</ex> it with sulphur</as>; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.</def>

<blockquote>She <b>fumed</b> the temple with an odorous flame. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To praise inordinately; to flatter.</def>

<blockquote>They demi-deify and <b>fume</b> him so. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.</def>

<blockquote>The heat will <b>fume</b> away most of the scent. <i>Montimer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How vicious hearts <b>fume</b> frenzy to the brain! <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fumeless</h1> <Xpage=602>