fume

noun

1. A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.

   “Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.”

   “the fumes of new-shorn hay”

2. A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.

   “Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.”

3. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.

   “The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.”

   “In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume.”

4. Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.

   “a show of fumes and fancies”

5. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

   “to smother him with fumes and eulogies”

6. (obsolete)A passionate person.

verb

1. (transitive)To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
2. (transitive)To apply or offer incense to.

   “Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.”

3. (intransitive)To emit fumes.

   “where the golden altar fumed”

   “Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...]”

4. (intransitive)To pass off in fumes or vapours.

   “whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]”

5. (figuratively)To express or feel great anger.

   “He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.”

   “He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.”

   “Her mother did fret, and her father did fume.”

   “His strong stand has made him a lightning rod for criticism by rail proponents, including some of his own friends. Herb Bridge […] is among Freeman's critics on the rail issue. "[…] I think he has an elitist attitude and doesn't want poor people in his mall," fumed Bridge, who operates a store in Freeman's mall.”

   “"Whoever is doing this is not just showing immense disrespect to me as a teacher, but also to the whole Torah and to this whole class and school!" he fumed. "And to God!"”

6. (figuratively, intransitive)To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

   “Keep his brain fuming.”