fumousadj.

1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 73 Fumous things alone.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 90/2 Yf it [sc. an aposteme] came of to muche eatynge of fumous meates.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxiv. 31 He must abstaine from garlicke, oynions..& such like fumous things.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 430/2 The Stopple, which hath a large Head..contains the fumous Medicine.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fumous, apt to fume up, that sends Fumes into the Head, heady.

1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. xii. 94 b Let them abstein from meate, that ingender botches..fumouse ructuacions or vapours.

1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. B.iii^v That Artere bringeth with him from the lunges ayre to temper the fumous heate that is in the harte.

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. A4^v Since the Subiect is but of Smoke, I thinke the fume of an idle braine, may serue for a sufficient battery against so fumous and feeble an enemy.

1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) sig. G2 The Glister Instrument, fit for the exact giving of a vapourous, fumous, or dry Glister, &c.

1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber ii. i. ii. ii. 41 The subtile fumous Humidity.

1661 J. Evelyn Fumifugium i. 7 Those fumous Works many of them were either left off, or spent but few Coales.

1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford II. iv. 100 As soon as the revellers had provided themselves with their wonted luxuries, potatory and fumous.

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vii. ii. 166 b Hasty, fumous, with furies infernal Of wilful malice innocentes blood to shede.

1459 J. Brackley in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 334 Here hevedy and fumows langage.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a4^v A mannes enemie..gathereth to gither all that he can imagyne, and so accuseth a man more of a fumous heate then of any verite.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 12 With fax and face fumous.

1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 84 Each maintaining their cause with like fumous Animosity.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Fumous, Fumose, grey, changing to brown, smoke-coloured.

1459 J. Brackley in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 333 Whan he seyd so fumowsly, ‘Who so ev'r sey that of me, he lyeth falsly in hise hede,’ &c.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hi And fumously adresse you.

1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 151 An other beyng sore offended..said fumouslie unto hym, dooest thou heare me?

a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 17 in Five New Playes (1659) Some have by the phrensie of despair Fumously run into the sea to throw Their wretched bodies.