Fuming

3 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fuming \Fum"ing\, a.
     Producing fumes, or vapors.
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     {Cadet's fuming liquid} (Chem.), alkarsin.
  
     {Fuming liquor of Libavius} (Old Chem.), stannic chloride;
        the chloride of tin, {SnCl4}, forming a colorless, mobile
        liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it
        solidifies to the so-called butter of tin.
  
     {Fuming sulphuric acid}. (Chem.) Same as {Disulphuric acid},
        uder {Disulphuric}.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "fuming":
     ablaze, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, aflame,
     aflicker, aglow, airy, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, candent,
     candescent, comburent, conflagrant, enraged, ethereal, fierce,
     fighting mad, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, fumy,
     furious, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing,
     guttering, hopping mad, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow,
     in a rage, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, infuriate,
     infuriated, kindled, live, living, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic,
     miasmic, on fire, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pneumatic,
     rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, reeking, reeky,
     roaring mad, savage, scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoky,
     smoldering, sparking, steaming, steamy, storming, unextinguished,
     unquenched, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory,
     wild