fumi-, fum- +
(Latin: smoke, vapor)
effumation
The action of converting into fumes or vapor; an emitted vapor.
effume
To puff or to breathe out smoke.
enfume
To expose to the action of smoke.
- To give a smoky taste to (wine).
- To dry in smoke (infumate).
- To make dingy, obscure with smoke.
- To blind as with smoke.
fumacious
Smoking; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking.
fumarium
A place for smoking; a smoke chamber.
fumarole, fumerole
A volcanic hole or vent through which vapor (steam and hot gasses) is emitted; a smoke-hole.
fumarolic
Of or belonging to a fumarole; formed by a fumarole.
fumator
Someone who deceives or who throws up a smoke screen.
fumatorium
An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; especially, the apparatus used to destroy fungus scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.
fumatory
1. A place set apart for smoking or for fumigating purposes.
2. Of or pertaining to (tobacco) smoking.
fume
1. The volatile matter produced by and usually accompanying combustion; smoke.
2. Odorous smoke (e.g. that of incense, tobacco, etc.).
3. Something used or prepared for producing aromatic vapor.
4. Odor or odorous exhalation (either fragrant or offensive) emitted from a substance, flower, etc.: "The smokestack fumed in great black billows."
5. The vapor given off by acids and volatile substances; said especially of exhalations or vapors that are irritating, stifling, or the like.
6. In a figurative sense, something comparable to smoke or vapor as being unsubstantial, transient, imaginary, etc.
fume, noun.
- Smoke; vapor from combustion, as from burning wood or tobacco.
- Vapor; volatile matter ascending in a dense body.
- Exhalation from the stomach; as the fumes of wine.
- Rage; heat; as the fumes of passion.
- Any thing unsubstantial or fleeting.
- Idle conceit; vain imagination.
fume, intransitive verb;
- To smoke; to throw off vapor, as in combustion: "Where the golden altar fumed."
- To yield vapor or visible exhalations: "Jonathan lay, whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain."
- To pass off in vapors: "Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity."
- To be in a rage; to be hot with anger: "He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground."
fume, transitive verb
- To smoke; to dry in smoke.
- To perfume: "She fumed the temples with an odorous flame."
- To disperse or drive away in vapors. "The heat will fume away most of the scent."
fumid
Fuming, vaporous.
fumiduct
A passage for smoke; such as, a smoke vent or a smokestack.
fumidus
Smoky, smoking.
fumifer
Smoking or steaming.
See other related smoke pages at this capno- unit.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "smoke, smoking":
atmido-;
capno;
Capnomania & Fumimania, Pt. 1;
Capnophobia & Fumiphobia, Pt. 1;
nebula-;
typho-.