Obs. or arch. Chiefly pl. Also 5 pl. fumes, 7 pl. fumers, 69 fewmet. [app. a. AF. *fumets (*fumez) pl., f. fumer (repr. L. fimāre) to dung. The continental Fr. word in this sense was fumées, of parallel formation.] The excrement (of a deer). rare in sing.
14[?]. Maystre of the Game, MS. Bodl. 546 (Halliw.). And ȝif men speke and aske hym of the fumes, he shal clepe fumes of an hert.
1576. Turberv., Venerie, 66. There is difference betweene the fewmet of the morning & that of the evenyng.
1598. [see FUMISHING].
1637. B. Jonson, Sad Sheph., I. ii. By his fewmets, he doth promise sport.
1668. Davenant, Rivals, IV. That [Game] both his Slote and Fumers do proclaim.
1737. Compl. Fam.-Piece, II. i. 290. Draw Counter until he may take up the Fewmet, as well made in the Evening Relief, as in the Morning.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. II. v. 324. The stags tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet.
1871. Tennyson, Last Tourn., 371. The fewmets of a deer.