资料来源 : 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.