a. [f. L. fūm-ōsus (f. fūmus smoke) + -OUS. Cf. F. fumeux.]
† 1. Giving off fumes; esp. tending to generate wind or gas in the stomach, flatulent. Obs.
1477. Norton, Ord. Alch., v., in Ashm. (1652), 73. Fumous things alone.
1543. Traheron, Vigos Chirurg., III. I. iv. 90. If it [an aposteme] came of to muche eatynge of fumous meates.
1610. Barrough, Meth. Physick, I. xxiv. (1639), 40. He must abstaine from Garlick, Onions and such like fumous things.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 430/2. The Stopple hath a large Head, which contains the fumous Medicine.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Fumous apt to fume up, that sends Fumes into the Head, heady.
† 2. Consisting of fumes; vaporous, windy. Obs.
1534. Elyot, Cast. Helthe, IV. xii. 94 b. Let them abstein from meate, that ingender botches fumouse ructuacions or vapours.
154877. Vicary, Anat., ii. (1888), 21. That Artere bringeth with him from the lunges ayre to temper the fumous heate that is in the harte.
1604. Jas. I., Counterbl. (Arb.), 98. Since the Subiect is but of Smoke, I thinke the fume of an idle braine, may serue for a sufficient battery against so fumous and feeble an enemy.
1612. Woodall, The Surgeons Mate, Wks. (1653), 21. The Glister Instrument, fit for the exact giving of a vaporous, fumous, or dry Glister, &c.
1678. R. R[ussell], Geber, II. I. II. ii. 41. The successive diuturnal and equal Resolution of the subtile fumous Humidity, is the Cause of the Inspissation of Metals.
3. Pertaining to smoke or smoking. Now jocular.
1661. Eyelyn, Fumifugium, I. 7. Those fumous Works many of them were either left off or spent but few Coales.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, II. iv. 100. As soon as the revellers had provided themselves with their wonted luxuries, potatory and fumous.
† 4. Full of passion, angry, furious. Obs.
143040. Lydg., Bochas, VII. ii. (1554), 166 b.
Hasty and fumous with furies infernall, | |
Of wylfull malice innocētes blode to shede. |
1460. Paston Lett., No. 349, I. 514. Here hevedy and fumows langage.
c. 1526. Frith, Disput. Purgat. (1829), 88. A mans enemy gathereth together all that he can imagine, and so accuseth a man more of a fumous heat than of any verity.
1560. Rolland, The Court of Venus, I. 617.
The ȝoungkeir said, with fax and face fumous: | |
Richt stomochat, thair standand him allone. |
1684. H. More, Answer, 84. Each maintaining their cause with like fumous Animosity.
5. Bot. = FUMOSE a. 3.
1866. [see FUMOSE a. 3].
Hence Fumously adv.; in quots. † angrily, furiously.
1460. Paston Lett., No. 349, I. 512. Whan he seyd so fumowsly, Who so ever sey that of me, he lyeth falsly in hise hede, &c.
1526. Skelton, Magnyf., 2522. And fumously addresse you.
1553. T. Wilson, Rhet. (1580), 151. An other beyng sore offended said fumouslie unto hym, dooest thou heare me?
a. 1652. Brome, Covent Garden, I. Wks. 1873, II. 17. Some have by the phrensie of despair Fumously run into the sea to throw Their wretched bodies.