Fumose

a. [ad. L. fūmōs-us, f. fūmus smoke.]

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1. Full of fumes, giving off fumes, vaporous, flatulent.

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c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg. (MS. B.), 25. To entempren þe fumose hete of þe same herte.

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1436. Political Poems (Rolls), II. 162.

	So that the fflete of Fflaundres passe nought,
	That in the narowe see he be not brought
	Into the Rochelle, to feche the fumose wine,
	Nere into Britonuse bay for salt so fyne.

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c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 353.

	Syr, hertyly y pray yow for to telle me Certenle
	of how many metes þat ar fumose in þeire degre.

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1861. Wheat & Tares, 199. The ‘Publican and Sinner’ wafted its praises aloft on a cloud of fumose panegyric.

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2. Smoky, thick with smoke, like smoke.

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1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 319. He … seyde ofte tymes when wyndes scholde folowe by fumose vapores ascendenge.

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1727. Bailey, vol. II., Fumose.

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1833. Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 733. What a fumose volume comes from the sheets!

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3. Bot. (See quot.)

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1866. Treas. Bot., Fumous, Fumose. Grey, changing to brown; smoke-coloured.

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