Fumed

2 definitions found

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.
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              Where the golden altar fumed.         --Milton.
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              Silenus lay,
              Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
                                                    --Roscommon.
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     2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
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              Keep his brain fuming.                --Shak.
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     3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.
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              Their parts are kept from fuming away by their
              fixity.                               --Cheyne.
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     4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
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              He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              While her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     {To fume away}, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to
        storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fumed
       adj : (of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes;
             "fumed oak"