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.

Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton.

Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon.

2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

Keep his brain fuming. --Shak.

3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.

Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne.

4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden.

While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. --Sir W. Scott.

To tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)