[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That emits smoke, steam, or vapor; that rises in fumes. Of acids: Emitting fumes on exposure to the air. Fuming liquor of Boyle (see quot. 1807).
1575. Turberv., Faulconrie, 309. A fumyng heate that ascendeth vp from the liuer to theyr [hawks’] heads.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke Ps. cxliv. 3.
| Lord bend thy arched skies | |
| With ease to let thee down; | |
| And make the stormes arise | |
| From mountaines fuming crown. |
1615. J. Stephens, Satyr. Ess., 282. He doth sophisticate his fuming Beere, to breed a skirmish the sooner.
1725. Pope, Odyss., VIII. 474. The fuming waters bubble o’er the blaze.
1735. Somerville, Chase, I. 347.
| As fuming Vapours rise, | |
| And hang upon the gently purling Brook. |
1791. W. Nicholson, trans. Chaptal’s Elem. Chem. (1800), III. 55. The fuming nitric acid immediately turns the fixed oil black.
1810. T. Thomson, A System of Chemistry (ed. 4), II. 9. Hydrogureted sulphuret of ammonia, known formerly by the name of fuming liquor of Boyle, because it was first described by that philosopher.
1853. W. Gregory, Inorg. Chem. (ed. 4), 387. It [Perchloride of Antimony] is a colorless, volatile fuming liquid, which is decomposed by water, yielding hydrochloric and antimonic acids.
1862. Goulburn, Pers. Relig., V. (1873), 286. The mind of man,—the faculty by which he discerns Truth,—may be compared to an eye placed above a fuming caldron, which can see nothing clearly, because the vapours intercept the vision. The heart is the caldron, and sends up the vapours which distort the view.
1871. R. Ellis, Catullus, lxiv. 392.
| While all Delphi’s city in eager jealousy trooping, | |
| Blithely receiv’d their god on fuming festival altars. |
fig. 1820. Wordsworth, Sky Prosp. All the fuming vanities of Earth.
b. Applied to foaming or seething water; also to waves perh. with allusion to sense 3. Obs. or poet.
1598. Marston, Pygmal., iv. 151. So haue I seene the fuming waues to fret.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 6. Th’ only sound Of leaves and fuming rills.
1731. Swift, Strephon & Chloe, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 155. Strephon who heard the fuming rill.
1805. W. Richardson, Poems & Plays, I. 28. By the brooks and fuming rills Come, Smiling Health.
2. That emits odorous fumes, aromatic.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), I. 380. The fume and smoke of the Cedar and the Citron trees onely, the old Troianes were acquainted with when they offered sacrifice: their fuming and walming steame (more truly I may so terme it than any odoriferous perfume) they vsed.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 244. They make a burning fire with sticks, putting therein certain fuming herbs.
3. That fumes, angry, raging. Also, characterized by or exhibiting anger.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 46. With fuming fustian anger … I vowd to be kindlye reuenged.
1615. J. Stephens, Satyr. Ess., 44. He will raile … For I have often heard such fuming stuffe Presented to an Audience.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk. (1859), 113. The baron … was naturally a fuming bustling little man.
1889. Pall Mall G., 4 Jan., 1/1. His fuming protests against English occupation.
Hence Fumingly adv., in a fuming manner; manifesting ‘fume’ or rage.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. xxii. § 7. They answere fumingly, that they are ashamed to defile their pennes with making answere to such idle questions.
1611. Cotgr., Fumeusement, smoakily, fumingly.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., I. xxxviii. 441. No, said the Secretary, but I tell you what I think of your Words. Hereupon he departed fumingly.
1894. Argosy, May, 356. It was an insult—as he fumingly told himself.
