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fume
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "to fumigate" (transitive), from Old French fumer "to smoke, burn" (12c.), from Latin fumare "to smoke, steam," from fumus "smoke, steam, fume" (see fume (n.)). Intransitive meaning "throw off smoke, emit vapor" is from 1530s; the figurative sense ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fume , fumes or fumed may refer to: Combustion gas , smoke Vapor Fume (grape) , another name for the French wine grape Sauvignon blanc Pouilly-Fumé , French wine region in the Loire Valley that produces wine from Sauvignon blanc Fifi La Fume , a cartoon ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES breathe fumes ▪ These children are breathing traffic fumes all day long. toxic chemicals/substances/fumes/gases ▪ Toxic chemicals were spilled into the river. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB over ▪ David Ashworth Parents ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fume \Fume\, v. t. To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room. She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. --Dryden. To praise inordinately; ...
Usage examples of fume.
The fumes given off by acetone, benzine, xylene, and formaldehyde are toxic and may cause sickness.
Judging by the aroma of the first fumes, the tobacco certainly contained an admixture of something stronger.
When the alkaloid is heated in a watchglass with a drop of strong sulphuric acid until the acid begins to fume, and is then allowed to get quite cold, a drop of nitric acid produces a brilliant red colour.
Ores of Lead -- Geographical Distribution of the Lead Industry -- Chemical and Physical Properties of Lead -- Alloys of Lead -- Compounds of Lead -- Dressing of Lead Ores -- Smelting of Lead Ores -- Smelting in the Scotch or American Ore-hearth -- Smelting in the Shaft or Blast Furnace -- Condensation of Lead Fume -- Desilverisation, or the Separation of Silver from Argentiferous Lead -- Cupellation -- The Manufacture of Lead Pipes and Sheets -- Protoxide of Lead -- Litharge and Massicot -- Red Lead or Minium -- Lead Poisoning -- Lead Substitutes -- Zinc and its Compounds -- Pumice Stone -- Drying Oils and Siccatives -- Oil of Turpentine Resin -- Classification of Mineral Pigments -- Analysis of Raw and Finished Products -- Tables -- Index.
The trees looked as if they were dying and the flowers in the neglected beds rattled in the fumes and slipstreams of the traffic.
The only thing to be collected, therefore, was elder-pith, for as to the other substance necessary for the manufacture of pyroxyle, it was only fuming azotic acid.
To make pyroxyle, the cotton must be immersed in the fuming azotic acid for a quarter of an hour, then washed in cold water and dried.
As he left, he could see out of the corner of his eye that Bagman and Fudge were fuming.
Daniel took most of these in good humor, but Isaac, who suspected that Jack was baiting him, fumed quietly, like a beaker just tonged from a furnace.
M uch company they draw, and much abuse, I n casting figures, telling fortunes, news, S elling of flies, flat bawdry with the stone, T ill it, and they, and all in fume are gone.
I thrust my burning face into it, drinking my fill, while the renegade in scarlet bawled at me and fumed and cursed, demanding my attention to what he was saying.
Little Henri Beyle breathed in the acrid fumes and gaped at the sarcophagus.
Longerman, however, had murmured something about removing Tapestry to a more accommodating trainer, and I had not been unselfish enough to decline the offer, and Binny had fumed in vain.
Abreu fume, knew that the latter was sore because he had not been able to find any excuse to hold Borel at Novorecife.
He fretted and fumed, chafing at the tedium, and then, as the long shadows stretched across the yard, subsided into a wretched silence.