a. [f. FUME sb. + -Y1.] Composed of, or full of, fumes, vapors, or smoke; of the nature of fume or fumes.
1570. Levins, Manip., 101/40. Fumye, fumosus.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 1006. Blent With fumie mixture of grosse nourishment.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. ix. 36. Ashes … have in them partly that which is earthie, and partly that which is fumie.
1635. Sir H. Wotton, in Lismore Papers (1888), Ser. II. III. 219. This fumie Citie [London].
1703. Rowe, Ulyss., II. i. 953. The fumy Vapours And mounting Spirits of the deep-drunk Bowl.
1794. Mathias, Purs. Lit. (1803), 368. The fumy tint [of a smoked glass].
1871. G. Macdonald, Parable, in Wks. Fancy & Imag., IV. 71. Through the fumy, thickened air.
1885. G. Meredith, Diana, I. i. 4. It knows enough for its fumy dubiousness.
† b. Fumy ball: ? ‘a puff-ball’ (Halliw.); ? a bubble.
1598. Hall, Sat., IV. iv. All soft as is the falling thistle-down, Soft as the fumy ball, or Morrians crowne.
Hence Fumily adv., smokily.
1855. in Ogilvie, Supp.
