to fume away

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Webster's Dictionary (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]

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