Fuming

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Smoking; fumigation.
  • noun. Fume; idle conceit; vain fancy.
  • noun. Irritated excitement; anger.
  • noun. The process of subjecting oak or other wood used in furniture to the fumes of ammonia, in order to give it an appearance of age.
  • noun. In photography, the process of exposing albuminized paper to the fumes of ammonia, which makes the paper print a trifle more quickly and gives it a purple tone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Producing fumes, or vapors.
  • adjective. alkarsin.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric.
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  • verb. Present participle of fume.
  • adjective. that fumes
  • adjective. very angry
  • Word Usage
    "But what gets people like Kastel fuming is the fact that big dairy farms produce tons of pollution in the form of manure and methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide -- gases blamed for warming the planet."
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    fume