\Fume\ (f[=u]m), n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh[=u]ma smoke,
dh[=u] to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy`ein to sacrifice,
storm, rage, qy`mon, qy`mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf.
OF. fum smoke, F. fum['e]e. Cf. {Dust}, n., {Femerell},
{Thyme}.]
1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke)
   ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the
   fumes of tobacco.
         The fumes of new shorn hay.           --T. Warton.
         The fumes of undigested wine.         --Dryden.
2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of
   self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South.
3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit;
   vain imagination.
         A show of fumes and fancies.          --Bacon.
4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
         To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton.
{In a fume}, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

\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.

\Fume\, v. t.
1. 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.
2. To praise inordinately; to flatter.
         They demi-deify and fume him so.      --Cowper.
3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
         The heat will fume away most of the scent.
                                               --Montimer.
         How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!
                                               --Young.

\Fume\, n. (Metal.)
Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead
fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).