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 fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm;

also, to pass off in fumes.

Fume, v. t. 1. To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors,

smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill

with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.

She fumed the temple with an odorous flame.

Dryden.

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