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

  Steam \Steam\ (st[=e]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Steamed}
     (st[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Steaming}.]
     1. To emit steam or vapor.
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              My brother's ghost hangs hovering there,


              O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              Let the crude humors dance
              In heated brass, steaming with fire intense. --J.
                                                    Philips.
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     2. To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
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              The dissolved amber . . . steamed away into the air.
                                                    --Boyle.
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     3. To move or travel by the agency of steam.
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              The vessel steamed out of port.       --N. P.
                                                    Willis.
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     4. To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  steamed
       adj 1: cooked in steam; "steamed clams"
       2: aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture";
          "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about
          being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness";
          "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay" [syn: {annoyed},
           {irritated}, {miffed}, {nettled}, {peeved}, {pissed}, {pissed
          off}, {riled}, {roiled}, {stunng}]

















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