Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STEAM, v.i.

1. To rise or pass off in vapor by means of heat; to fume. Let the crude humors dance / In heated brass, steaming with fire intense. – Philips.
2. To send off visible vapor. Ye mists that rise from steaming lake.
3. To pass off in visible vapor. The dissolved amber – steamed away into the air. – Boyle.