Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FUME, v.i. [L. fumo, Fr. fumer, Sp. fumar, It. fumare, to smoke.]

1. To smoke; to throw off vapor, as in combustion. Where the golden altar fumed. Milton.
2. To yield vapor or visible exhalations. Silenus lay, / Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. Roscommon.
3. To pass off in vapors. Their parts are 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.