a. Obs. Also 7 fumide. [ad. L. fūmid-us, f. fūmus FUME sb.] Fuming, vaporous.

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1597.  Lowe, Chirurg. (1634), 210. The Cause, is great aboundance of viscous sharpe humiditie which commeth from the head, also drinking of strong and fumide drinke.

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1634.  T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., I. ix. (1678), 14. Every smell, or fumid exhalation breathing out of bodies.

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1661.  Evelyn, Fumifugium, II. 16. Two or three of these fumid vortices are able to whirle it about the whole City.

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1686.  J. Goad, Astro-meteorologica, I. ix. 31. The Vegetable Spirit is of the same Nature with the Plant, the Metallick Spirit with the Metal, the Fumid Spirit with the Odour, the Earthy Spirit with the Earth.

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1797.  Encycl. Brit., II. 445/2. The comet … appeared like … a rude mass of matter illuminated with a dusky fumid light.

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1889.  Elvin, Dict. Heraldry, Fumid, emitting smoke.

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  Hence † Fumidity, † Fumidness, the condition or quality of being fumid.

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1623.  Cockeram, Fumiditie, smoake.

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1656–81.  Blount, Glossogr., Fumidity, smoakiness.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Fumidness.

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