From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
fume
n : a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke]
v 1: be mad, angry, or furious
2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"
[syn: smoke]
3: treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim
of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: fumigate]
4: be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: reek]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fume \Fume\ (f[=u]m), n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh[=u]ma smoke,
dh[=u] to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy`ein to sacrifice,
storm, rage, qy`mon, qy`mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf.
OF. fum smoke, F. fum['e]e. Cf. Dust, n., Femerell,
Thyme.]
1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke)
ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the
fumes of tobacco.
[1913 Webster]
The fumes of new shorn hay. --T. Warton.
[1913 Webster]
The fumes of undigested wine. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of
self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South.
[1913 Webster]
3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit;
vain imagination.
[1913 Webster]
A show of fumes and fancies. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
[1913 Webster]
To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of
fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead
sulphate).
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fume \Fume\, v. t.
1. To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors,
smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with
sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a
room.
[1913 Webster]
She fumed the temple with an odorous flame.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. To praise inordinately; to flatter.
[1913 Webster]
They demi-deify and fume him so. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
[1913 Webster]
The heat will fume away most of the scent.
--Montimer.
[1913 Webster]
How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!
--Young.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Silenus lay,
Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
--Roscommon.
[1913 Webster]
2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
[1913 Webster]
Keep his brain fuming. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.
[1913 Webster]
Their parts are kept from fuming away by their
fixity. --Cheyne.
[1913 Webster]
4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
[1913 Webster]
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
--Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]
To fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to
storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
[1913 Webster]