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Word Meanings - FUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Exhalation; volatile matter 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;

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1. Exhalation; volatile matter 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.

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  • SCENTFUL
    1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
  • EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
    A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
  • STORMING
    from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
  • SMELLING
    1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
  • NIDOROSE
    Nidorous. Arbuthnot.
  • PERFUMER
    1. One who, oe that which, perfumes. 2. One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.
  • STEAM
    smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor;
  • VIOLENT
    probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
  • STORM
    A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
  • STORMGLASS
    A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
  • STEAMBOAT
    A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
  • BUBBLE SHELL
    A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
  • FURIOUS
    1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal. 2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. Syn. -- Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous;
  • TRAILER
    One who, or that which, trails.
  • EFFERVESCENT
    Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
  • SCENTINGLY
    By scent. Fuller.
  • STORMINESS
    The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
  • SMOKEHOUSE
    A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
  • STEAM ENGINE
    An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the
  • SMOKELESS POWDER
    A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
  • FLORESCENT
    Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
  • INTUMESCENT
    Swelling up; expanding.
  • REVALESCENT
    Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
  • ADOLESCENT
    Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
  • CONCUPISCENTIOUS
    Concupiscent.
  • LAPIDESCENT
    Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
  • CONVALESCENTLY
    In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
  • DELITESCENT
    Lying hid; concealed.
  • INEFFERVESCENT
    Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
  • DEPASCENT
    Feeding.
  • SUPERCRESCENT
    Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
  • ASCENT
    1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
  • RUFESCENT
    Reddish; tinged with red.
  • COGNOSCENTE
    A conoisseur. Mason.
  • CRESCENT
    The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr.
  • TABESCENT
    Withering, or wasting away.
  • ACAULESCENT
    Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.

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