[f. prec.]
1. a. trans. To send up, pour out, in volumes.
1815. Scott, Waterloo, viii. Through the war-smoke, volumed high, Still peals that unremitted cry.
1865. G. Meredith, Farina, 194. More and more the nightingales volumed their notes.
b. intr. To rise or roll in a volume or cloud.
1824. Byron, Def. Transf., I. i. The mighty steam, which volumes high From their proud nostrils, burns the very air.
1884. Howells, Silas Lapham (1891), I. 65. Shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
1891. Meredith, Fragm. Iliad, in Illustr. Lond. News, 18 April, 507/1. Up from under them volumed the dust cloud, Up off the plain.
2. trans. To collect or bind in a volume.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, II. 119. It must have a bouquet of chemically prepared sentiment, and then it is fit to be volumed from the rough cask of MS., and decanted into the reviews.
1895. Punch, 5 Jan., 1/1. For it’s always been my practice, Sir,… Since the day that I was volumed, until now I’m fifty four.
