Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fume \Fume\, n. (Metal.)
   Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead
   fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).

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.

            Where the golden altar fumed.         --Milton.

            Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his
            brain.                                --Roscommon.

   2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

            Keep his brain fuming.                --Shak.

   3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.

            Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their
            fixity.                               --Cheyne.

   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 tame away}, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to
      storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

Fume \Fume\ (f[=u]m), n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh[=u]ma smoke,
   dh[=u] to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy`ein to sacrifice,
   storm, rage, qy`mon, qy`mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf.
   OF. fum smoke, F. fum['e]e. Cf. {Dust}, n., {Femerell},
   {Thyme}.]
   1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke)
      ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the
      fumes of tobacco.

            The fumes of new shorn hay.           --T. Warton.

            The fumes of undigested wine.         --Dryden.

   2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of
      self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South.

   3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit;
      vain imagination.

            A show of fumes and fancies.          --Bacon.

   4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

            To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton.

   {In a fume}, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

Fume \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.

   2. To praise inordinately; to flatter.

            They demi-deify and fume him so.      --Cowper.

   3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.

            The heat will fume away most of the scent.
                                                  --Montimer.

            How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!
                                                  --Young.

Source : WordNet®

fume
     v 1: be mad, angry, or furious
     2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"
        [syn: {smoke}]
     3: treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim
        of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: {fumigate}]
     4: be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: {reek}]

fume
     n : a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: {smoke}]