'Fuming' definitions:
Definition of 'Fuming'
From: GCIDE
- Fume \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. [1913 Webster]
- Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. [1913 Webster]
- Keep his brain fuming. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pass off in fumes or vapors. [1913 Webster]
- Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. [1913 Webster]
- He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- To fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fuming'
From: GCIDE
- Fuming \Fum"ing\, a. Producing fumes, or vapors. [1913 Webster]
- Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin.
- Fuming liquor of Libavius (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin.
- Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fuming'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablaze,
- aerial,
- aerodynamic,
- aerostatic,
- aery,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- airy,
- alight,
- ardent,
- blazing,
- burning,
- candent,
- candescent,
- comburent,
- conflagrant,
- enraged,
- ethereal,
- fierce,
- fighting mad,
- flagrant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flickering,
- fumy,
- furious,
- gaseous,
- gasified,
- gasiform,
- gaslike,
- gassy,
- glowing,
- guttering,
- hopping mad,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in a rage,
- in flames,
- incandescent,
- inflamed,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- kindled,
- live,
- living,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- on fire,
- oxyacetylene,
- oxygenous,
- ozonic,
- pneumatic,
- rabid,
- raging,
- ranting,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- roaring mad,
- savage,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- smoking,
- smoky,
- smoldering,
- sparking,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- storming,
- unextinguished,
- unquenched,
- vaporing,
- vaporish,
- vaporlike,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- wild