Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fumed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fume \Fume\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fumed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fuming}.] [Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See {Fume}, n.]
1. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical
action; to rise up, as vapor.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

fumed
adj : (of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes;
"fumed oak"


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