Also 7 feum. [a. F. fumer = Pr., Sp., Pg. fumar, It. fumare:—L. fūmāre, f. fūm-us: see prec. sb.]

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  1.  trans. To apply smoke or fumes to; to fumigate.

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c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 179. Herwiþ anoynte hise heeris, and firste þou schalt fumie hem wiþ sulphur.

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1544.  Phaer, Pestilence (1553), L vj a. The Egipcyans were wont to fume their houses … with turpentine or rosin.

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1612.  Woodall, The Surgeons Mate, Wks. (1653), 74. Succinum … is good to be cast on coals to receive the fume thereof, to comfort the Arse-gut fallen, as also to fume a ship or house in time of infectious aires, as the plague, or when general fluxes are to be feared.

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1669.  J. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 217. Fuming the holes with Brimstone, Garlick, and other unsavoury things, will drive them out.

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1737.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. v. 267. First fume the Vessel with Brimstone, and do not stop it up till it has done hissing.

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  b.  To perfume with incense; to burn incense before or offer incense to.

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1641.  Milton, Reform., 1. They hallowed it, they fumed it, they sprinkled it.

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1700.  Dryden, Fables, Ceyx & Alcyone, 241.

        She fum’d the Temples with an od’rous Flame,
And oft before the sacred Altars came,
To pray for him, who was an empty Name.

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1849–53.  Rock, Ch. of Fathers, IV. xii. 186. The celebrant … went up to the altar, and … fum’d it all about with incense.

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  fig.  1784.  Cowper, Task, V. 266.

        They demi-deify and fume him so
That in due season he forgets it too.

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  † c.  To perfume. Obs.

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a. 1483.  Liber Niger, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 40. That the King’s robes, dublettes, shetes, and shertes be fumyd, by all the yere of the yeoman pothecary.

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1592.  Greene, Poems, 113. Crisps and scarfs, worn a la morisco, Fumed with sweets.

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1607.  Marston, What You Will, III. i. Now are the Lawne sheetes fum’d with Vyolets.

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1680.  Shadwell, Woman-Captain, II. Wks. 1720, III. 361. Let me have costlier Scents, and fume the Foom; my Nostrils are not pleas’d enough.

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1740.  Dyer, The Ruins of Rome, 496.

                    Tyrian garbs,
Neptunian Albion’s high testaceous food,
And flavoured Chian wines with incense fumed
To slake Patrician thirst.

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  † d.  To preserve by smoking; to smoke-dry (provisions). Obs.

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1602.  Carew, Cornwall, I. (1723), 33. Those [fish] that serue for the hotter Countries of Spaine and Italie, they vsed at first to fume, by … drying them with the smoake of a soft and continuall fire.

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1661.  Evelyn, Fumifugium, Misc. Writ. (1805), I. 228. If one hang up gammons of bacon, beefe, or other flesh to fume, and prepare it in the chimnies.

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  e.  Photogr. To expose to the fumes of ammonia.

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1890.  Abney, Treat. Photogr. (ed. 6), 164. Some operators find that by fuming the film with the vapour of ammonia, after thorough drying, increased vigour is imparted to the print.

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1890.  Anthony’s Photogr. Bull., III. 68. Some say fume ten minutes, and some say an hour.

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  2.  intr. To emit fumes, smoke, or vapor.

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c. 1532.  Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 946. To fume, fumer.

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, VIII. 74. Like boyling liquor … That fumeth, swelleth high and bubbleth fast.

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1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 539. A Censer is there left fuming all the day and night.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., II. (1626), 29. The Poles aboue At either end do fume.

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1743.  Lond. & Country Brew., IV. (ed. 2), 306. It will make the Drink fret and fume at the Bung.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, V. 54.

        But now and then with pressure of his thumb
T’ adjust the fragrant charge of a short tube
That fumes beneath his nose.

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1791–1823.  D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1859), II. 259. On other occasions, they put burnt old shoes to fume in the censers.

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1853.  W. Gregory, Inorg. Chem. (ed. 4), 275. The [hydrofluoric] acid appears as a very volatile liquid, strongly acid and corrosive, fuming in the air.

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1878.  C. D. Warner, In the Wilderness, vi. 143. The fire sputters and fumes.

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  fig.  1620.  in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1848), 74.

        Lust’s a fire, still consuming,
Lighting never, ever fuming;
Quench it, it is straight aswaging;
Give it vent, it’s ever raging.

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1633.  G. Herbert, Temple, Nature, ii. If thou shalt let this venome lurk, And in suggestions fume and work.

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1840.  Dickens, Barn. Rudge, iv. The spiritual essence or soul of Sim would sometimes fume within that precious cask, his body.

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  † b.  trans. To cause to emit fumes. Obs. rare.

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1652.  Gaule, Πῦς-μαντία, the Mag-astro-mancer, 248. Frankincense being fumed, and candles being lighted.

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1666.  W. Boghurst, Loimographia (1894), 62. Burning or fuming vinegar and rose water.

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1681.  [see FUMING vbl. sb.].

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  3.  intr. Of smoke, a vapor, etc.: To issue, rise, pass off; to rise and pass away.

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1593.  Shaks., Lucr., 1042.

        As smoake from Ætna, that in aire consumes,
Or that which from discharged Cannon fumes.

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1595.  Spenser, Col. Clout, 720. Even such is all their vaunted vanitie, Nought else but smoke, that fumeth soone away.

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1620.  Venner, Via Recta (1650), 309. The vapours … do slowly fume and ascend to the head.

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1643.  Wither, Campo Musæ, 17.

        Help us to that Peace-Offring, whence, may fume
Into thy nostrils, that sweet-smelling savour.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., VII. 600. Incense Clouds Fuming from Golden Censers, hid the Mount.

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, II. XIV. 67.

                        From it fumes
A stifling smell of sulphur.

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  † b.  Of food, wine, etc.: To rise as fumes (to or into the head). Also with up. Obs.

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1571.  Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxxv. 9. Stronge wyne fuminge quickly and strongly into the brayne.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 407. One of them when the wine had a little fumed up into the head, began both to speake and doe foolishly.

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1610.  Barrough, Meth. Physick, I. ii. (1639), 3. He must abstaine from milke, and meates that fume into the head, or that be hard of digestion.

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1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 782. They haue a manner, to prepare their Greeke-Wines, to keepe them from Fuming, and Inebriating, by adding some Sulphur, or Allome.

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1703.  Art & Myst. Vintners, 9. To prevent their fuming up to the head and inebriating.

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  c.  To pass away or off in fumes or vapor. rare.

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1705.  Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Relig., i. § 38. 78. Their Parts are kept from fumeing away by their fixity.

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1866.  Mrs. Whitney, L. Goldthwaite, x. 253. They … did something to it—applied heat, I believe—to drive away the sulphur. That fumed off, and left the rest as promiscuous as before.

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  fig.  1728–46.  Thomson, Spring, 245.

        For their light Slumbers gently fum’d away;
And up they rose as vigorous as the Sun.

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1751.  Johnson, Rambler, No. 172, ¶ 4. The madness of joy will fume away.

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1852.  G. P. R. James, Agnes Sorel (1860), II. 2. The Gamin spirit fumed off in a metaphor.

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a. 1859.  De Quincey, Post. Wks. (1891), I. 73. Vet all this marvellous learning fumes away in boyish impertinence.

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  † 4.  trans. To send forth or emit as vapor, disperse in vapor. Also with away, forth, out. Obs.

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1563.  Hyll, Art Garden. (1593), 38. The snake and Adders … be driuen away with euery sharpe and stincking sauour fumed abroad.

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1627.  Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., xiv. 67. Some … will … fume out a most stinking … smoke.

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1647.  Trapp, Comm. Matt. xxvii. 36. That golden censer, Christ’s body; which through the holes that were made in it … fumed forth a sweet savour.

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1700.  T. Brown, trans. Fresny’s Amusem. Ser. & Com., 116. Which being Foppishly fumed into their Noses, Eyes, and Ears, has the Vertue to make them Talk.

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1707.  Mortimer, Husb., Bees, 213. Otherwise the heat will fume away most of the Scent.

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  fig.  1606.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XIV. xci. (1612), 369. An Indian weede, That feum’d away more wealth than would a many thousands feed.

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1742.  Young, Nt. Th., VII. 1370. How vicious hearts fume phrensy to the brain!

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1866.  G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xv. (1878), 320. The worship of one’s own will fumes out around the being an atmosphere of evil, an altogether abnormal condition of the moral firmament, out of which will break the very flames of hell.

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  † 5.  intr. Of the head or brain: To be ‘clouded’ with fumes (of liquor). Obs.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., II. i. 24.

        Tye vp the Libertine in a field of Feasts,
Keepe his Braine fuming.

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  6.  fig. To give way to or exhibit anger or irritation. Often in phrase fume and chafe, fret and fume. Also with up.

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1522.  More, De quat. Noviss., Wks. 85/1. As the fire of the burnyng hyl of Ethna burneth only it self, so doth the enuious parson, fret, fume, & burne in his owne hert.

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1535, 1581.  [see CHAFE v. 10].

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1551, 1631, 1875.  [see FRET v.1 9].

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1676.  Hobbes, Iliad, 187.

        Then back unto the throng he went, and fum’d
  Both for the loss of the good Spear he brake,
And of the Victory he had presum’d.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 313. Break a window slily, hide a workman’s tool, or fasten up his door, for sake of the fancy of how much he will fret and fume when he comes to discover the roguery.

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1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxxii. Nicholas, who had been fuming and chafing until he was nearly wild.

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1839–40.  W. Irving, Wolfert’s R. (1855), 211. I walked up and down the bar-room, fuming with conscious independence and insulted dignity, while the pompous-looking personage, who had thus trespassed upon my spleen, retired without proffering another word.

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1859.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alteram Partem, II. lxxxii. 44. People who would fume up at any intimation that they were indifferent to the reputation of the country or the honour of the Crown, will stand gaping and hear them have the thanks of parliament.

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1872.  Black, Adv. Phaeton, v. The Lieutenant … was fuming about the yard to rout out the ostler’s assistants.

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1878.  Miss Braddon, Open Verd., I. i. 9. Your wisely selfish man knows his own interest too well to fret and fume about trifles.

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  Hence Fumed ppl. a.

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1612.  Webster, White Devil, V. iv. Isabella … was impoisoned By a fumed picture.

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1617.  Moryson, Itin., III. II. iv. 96. They exported … pickeld and fumed Herrings.

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1890.  Woodbury, Encycl. Photogr., 308. Fumed paper should be used within a day or two after fuming, as the effect is not permanent.

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