Obs. or arch. Chiefly pl. Also 5 pl. fumes, 7 pl. fumers, 6–9 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.

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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.

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1576.  Turberv., Venerie, 66. There is difference betweene the fewmet of the morning & that of the evenyng.

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1598.  [see FUMISHING].

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1637.  B. Jonson, Sad Sheph., I. ii. By his … fewmets, he doth promise sport.

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1668.  Davenant, Rivals, IV. That [Game] both his Slote and Fumers do proclaim.

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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.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. II. v. 324. The stag’s tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet.

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1871.  Tennyson, Last Tourn., 371. The … fewmets of a deer.

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