▪ I. fuming, vbl. n.
(ˈfjuːmɪŋ)
[f. fume v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. fume in various senses.
| 1529 More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1172/2 Rather of his pacyence to take both ease and thanke, then by frettynge and fumynge to encrease hys presente payne. 1578 Mirr. Mag., Harold xvi, O Fancy fonde, thy fuminges hath mee fed. 1620 Dekker Dream Christ's Coming Wks. (Grosart) III. 22 Learning burnt bright, without Contentious fuming. 1681–6 J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. vii. 197 This fuming of the Incense by the Priests..was nothing but a mystical Oblation of those Prayers to God. 1693 Salmon Bates' Dispens. (1713) 712/1 They are used for the fuming of the Bed Chambers of sick People. 1870 R. W. Dale Week-day Serm. ii. 40 No fuming and fretting will make any difference. |
b. The treatment of oak with fumes of ammonia in order to give it an antique appearance.
| 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Feb. 8/1 Oak..shaded to the..tint of the antique work by the process known as ‘fuming’. |
c. Photogr. (See quot. 1890.)
| 1889 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 347 Paper must be thoroughly dried before fuming. 1890 Woodbury Encycl. Photogr., Fuming, a process of subjecting albuminised paper to the fumes of ammonia. |
d. Comb.: fuming-box, † (a) ‘a pastile-burner’ (Halliwell 1847); (b) (Photogr.), an apparatus in which the sensitive paper is exposed to the fumes of ammonia; fuming-pot, ‘a brazier or censer’ (Cent. Dict.).
| 1874 Knight Dict. Mech. I. 925/1 Fuming-box. 1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 68 If paper is..dry when put in the fuming box, long fuming does no harm. |
▪ II. fuming, ppl. a.
(ˈfjuːmɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That emits smoke, steam, or vapour; that rises in fumes. Of acids: Emitting fumes on exposure to the air. fuming liquor of Boyle (see quot. 1807).
| 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 309 A fumyng heate that ascendeth up from the liver to theyr [hawks'] heads. c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxliv. 3 Lord..make the stormes arise From mountane's fuming crown. 1615 J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 282 He doth sophisticate his fuming Beere, to breed a skirmish the sooner. 1725 Pope Odyss. viii. 474 The fuming waters bubble o'er the blaze. 1735 Somerville Chase i. 347 Fuming Vapours rise And hang upon the gently purling Brook. 1791 W. Nicholson tr. Chaptal's Elem. Chem. (1800) III. 55 The fuming nitric acid immediately turns the fixed oil black. 1807 T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 10 Hydrogureted sulphuret of ammonia, known formerly by the name of fuming liquor of Boyle, because it was first described by that philosopher. 1853 W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 233 Terchloride of Arsenic..is a colourless, volatile, fuming liquid. 1862 Goulburn Pers. Relig. v. (1873) 286 A fuming caldron. 1871 R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 393 All Delphi's city..Blithely receiv'd their god on fuming festival altars. |
| fig. 1820 Wordsworth Sky Prosp., All the fuming vanities of Earth. |
b. Applied to foaming or seething water; also to waves perh. with allusion to sense 3. Obs. or poet.
| 1598 Marston Pygmal. iv. 151 So haue I seene the fuming waues to fret. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 6 Th' only sound Of leaves and fuming rills. 1731 Swift Strephon & Chloe Wks. 1755 IV. i. 155 Strephon who heard the fuming rill. 1805 W. Richardson Poems & Plays I. 28 By the brooks and fuming rills Come, Smiling Health. |
2. That emits odorous fumes, aromatic.
| 1601 Holland Pliny (1634) I. 380 The fume and smoke of the Cedar and the Citron trees onely, the old Troianes were acquainted with when they offered sacrifice: their fuming and walming steame..they vsed. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 244 They make a burning fire with sticks, putting therein certain fuming herbs. |
3. That fumes, angry, raging. Also, characterized by or exhibiting anger.
| 1583 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 With fuming fustian anger..I vowd to be kindlye reuenged. 1615 J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 44 He will raile..For I have often heard such fuming stuffe Presented to an Audience. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 113 The baron..was naturally a fuming bustling little man. 1889 Pall Mall G. 4 Jan. 1/1 His fuming protests against English occupation. |
Hence ˈfumingly adv., in a fuming manner; manifesting ‘fume’ or rage.
| 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxii. §7 They answere fumingly, that they are ashamed to defile their pennes with making answere to such idle questions. 1611 Cotgr., Fumeusement, smoakily, fumingly. 1709 Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxviii. 441 Hereupon he departed fumingly. 1894 Argosy May 356 It was an insult—as he fumingly told himself. |