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▪ I. fuming, vbl. n.|ˈfjuːmɪŋ|
[f. fume v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. fume in various senses.
1529More 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. 1578Mirr. Mag., Harold xvi, O Fancy fonde, thy fuminges hath mee fed. 1620Dekker Dream Christ's Coming Wks. (Grosart) III. 22 Learning burnt bright, without Contentious fuming. 1681–6J. 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. 1693Salmon Bates' Dispens. (1713) 712/1 They are used for the fuming of the Bed Chambers of sick People. 1870R. 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.
1893Westm. 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.)
1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 347 Paper must be thoroughly dried before fuming. 1890Woodbury 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.).
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 925/1 Fuming-box. 1890Anthony'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).
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 309 A fumyng heate that ascendeth up from the liver to theyr [hawks'] heads. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxliv. 3 Lord..make the stormes arise From mountane's fuming crown. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 282 He doth sophisticate his fuming Beere, to breed a skirmish the sooner. 1725Pope Odyss. viii. 474 The fuming waters bubble o'er the blaze. 1735Somerville Chase i. 347 Fuming Vapours rise And hang upon the gently purling Brook. 1791W. Nicholson tr. Chaptal's Elem. Chem. (1800) III. 55 The fuming nitric acid immediately turns the fixed oil black. 1807T. 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. 1853W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 233 Terchloride of Arsenic..is a colourless, volatile, fuming liquid. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. v. (1873) 286 A fuming caldron. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 393 All Delphi's city..Blithely receiv'd their god on fuming festival altars.
fig.1820Wordsworth 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.
1598Marston Pygmal. iv. 151 So haue I seene the fuming waues to fret. 1667Milton P.L. v. 6 Th' only sound Of leaves and fuming rills. 1731Swift Strephon & Chloe Wks. 1755 IV. i. 155 Strephon who heard the fuming rill. 1805W. Richardson Poems & Plays I. 28 By the brooks and fuming rills Come, Smiling Health.
2. That emits odorous fumes, aromatic.
1601Holland 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. 1607Topsell 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.
1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 With fuming fustian anger..I vowd to be kindlye reuenged. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 44 He will raile..For I have often heard such fuming stuffe Presented to an Audience. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 113 The baron..was naturally a fuming bustling little man. 1889Pall Mall G. 4 Jan. 1/1 His fuming protests against English occupation.
Hence ˈfumingly adv., in a fuming manner; manifesting ‘fume’ or rage.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxii. §7 They answere fumingly, that they are ashamed to defile their pennes with making answere to such idle questions. 1611Cotgr., Fumeusement, smoakily, fumingly. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxviii. 441 Hereupon he departed fumingly. 1894Argosy May 356 It was an insult—as he fumingly told himself. |