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Webster 1913 Edition
Fuming
Fum′ing
,Adj.
Producing fumes, or vapors.
Cadet’s fuming liquid
(Chem.)
, alkarsin.
– Fuming liquor of Libavius
(Old Chem.)
, 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. Fuming sulphuric acid
. (Chem.)
Same as
Disulphuric acid
, uder Disulphuric
.Webster 1828 Edition
Fuming
FU'MING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
fuming
fuming
English
Verb
fuming
- present participle of fume
Adjective
fuming (comparative more fuming, superlative most fuming)
- That fumes.
- Very angry.
Derived terms
Noun
fuming (plural fumings)
- The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
- 1840, The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
- He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
- 1949, New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide
- Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.
- 1986, John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness
- And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
- 1840, The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register