Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton.
Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his
brain. --Roscommon.
2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
Keep his brain fuming. --Shak.
3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.
Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their
fixity. --Cheyne.
4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
--Dryden.
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
--Sir W.
Scott.
{To tame away}, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to
storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
The fumes of new shorn hay. --T. Warton.
The fumes of undigested wine. --Dryden.
2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of
self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South.
3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit;
vain imagination.
A show of fumes and fancies. --Bacon.
4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton.
{In a fume}, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
She fumed the temple with an odorous flame.
--Dryden.
2. To praise inordinately; to flatter.
They demi-deify and fume him so. --Cowper.
3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
The heat will fume away most of the scent.
--Montimer.
How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!
--Young.