FUMING - 4 definitions found
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton. Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon. 2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. Keep his brain fuming. --Shak. 3. To pass off in fumes or vapors. Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne. 4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden. While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. --Sir W. Scott. To tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Fuming \Fum"ing\, a. Producing fumes, or vapors. Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin. Fuming liquor of Libsvius (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. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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