Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FUME
FUME, v.i. [L. fumo, Fr. fumer, Sp. fumar, It. fumare, to smoke.]
- To smoke; to throw off vapor, as in combustion. Where the golden altar fumed. Milton.
- To yield vapor or visible exhalations. Silenus lay, / Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. Roscommon.
- To pass off in vapors. Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. Cheyne.
- To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden.
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