fumenoun/fjuːm/

• 1

  A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.

  • Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
  • the fumes of new-shorn hay
• 2

  A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.

  • Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.
• 3

  Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.

  • The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.
  • In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume.
• 4

  Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.

  • a show of fumes and fancies
• 5

  The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

  • to smother him with fumes and eulogies
• 6

  obsoleteA passionate person.

fumeverb/fjuːm/

• 1

  To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.

• 2

  To apply or offer incense to.

  • Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
• 3

  To emit fumes.

  • where the golden altar fumed
  • Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...]
• 4

  To pass off in fumes or vapours.

  • whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]
• 5

  To express or feel great anger.

  • He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.
  • He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
• 6

  To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

  • Keep his brain fuming.