My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his
warm blood, that steams into the air. --Dryden.
Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming
with fire intence. --J. Philips.
2. To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
The dissolved amber . . . steamed away into the air.
--Boyle.
3. To move or travel by the agency of steam.
The vessel steamed out of port. --N. P.
Willis.
4. To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.