fulvescent 
fulvescent (ful-ves'ent), a. [< L./wfriw, tawny, from the flues being allowed to escape into it ; 
+ -rxrent.'] Somewhat tawny or fulvous in col- a smoke-room. 
or; approaching or becoming tawny. fumarple (fu'ma-rol), n. [< It. furnaruolp, 
fulvid (ful'vid), a. [= Pg. It.fttlvido; an im- fuiiiiijiioln, a fumarole, < ML. fumariolum, the 
proper extension of fulvous, in imitation of vent of a chimney, dim. of ML. fumm-iiim, :> 
fuUiid < L fulgidus."] Same as ful eons. chimney, LL. a smoke-chamber: see fumari- 
' M,d in rii-'ht adoan to the life depaint '] A hole from which vapor issues in a sul- 
Tho fulfill eagle with her inn-bright eye. phur-mine or a volcano. 
Dr. H. More, Psyuhozuia, i. 3. fumatoryt (fu'ma-to-ri), n. Same &s fumitory 1 . 
fulvo-seneous cful"v6-e'ne-us), a. [< "L.fiilvus, fumble (l'um'bl),V. ;' pret. and pp. fumbled, ppr. 
tawny, + irnnix, brassy.]' In entom., metallic- fumbling. [The b is excrescent, as in grumble, 
brassy in color, with a tinge of brownish yel- humble 1 , humble^, etc. ; < D. fommelen = LG. 
low. fitmmelUffommeln, fumble, grope, = Sw./wwfo, 
fulvous (ful'vus), a. [= Pg. lt.fulvo, < L. ful- ulsofamla = Dan. famle = leel. falma, fumble, 
ran, deep-yellow, reddish-yellow, tawny, prob. grope ; other forms are famble 1 , q. v. (of Scand. 
orig. 'flame-colored,' < fulyere, flash, lighten: origin), and/mWel(appar., like Q.A\a\.fimmeln, 
nee fulgent. CLflavous, of similar origin.] Red- an attenuated form of fumble, LG. fummeln); 
dish-yellow in color ; tawny. prob. a derivative of the word preserved in 
Gathering her fulvous fleece together, Janet ties it in a OHG. folma = AS. folm = OS. pi. folmos, the 
fume 
Whereas, in passing over some mines, he found himself 
molested by offensive fumes, he felt no such effect when 
he was upon that scope of ground under which there lay 
veins of cinnabar, or, if you please, a mine of quick-silver 
ore. Boyle, Works (ed. 1744), IV. 278. 
4. Any mental agitation regarded as clouding 
or affecting the understanding; excitement; 
especially, an irritable or angry mood; pas- 
sion : generally in the singular. 
Her fume needs no spurs, 
She'll gallop far enough to her destruction. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 
She, out of love, desires me not to go to my father, be- 
cause something hath put him in a. fume against me. 
tihirley, Merchant's Wife, iv. 5. 
But least of all Philosophy presumes 
Of truth in dreams, from melancholy fumes. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, ill. 511. 
The fumes of his passion do really intoxicate and con- 
[ his jvid 
found 
udging and discerning faculty. 
, 
hasty knot at the hack of her comely head. 
hand, = L. palma, the palm of the hand : see 
'' 
C. W. lfa*oH,R&fe oUheGamp,^i. f am ble^, palrn^."] I. intrans. 1. To feel or 
grope about blindly or clumsily; hence, to 
make awkward attempts; seek or search for 
something awkwardly. 
The Sassaybe is the bastard Imrtebeest of the Colonists, 
and is considerably smaller than the animal last described 
[the hartebeest) ; the general colour is deep blackish, pur- 
ple-brown above, fulvous below. 
W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 615. 
fulwa (ful'wa), . [E. Ind.] The native Indian 
I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. 
Aaft.,Hen. V., ii. 3. 
name for the Bassia butt/racca, a tree whose They asked him for his certificate. . . . Sohe fumbled 
a ' '^lAc. *^* .,,1; t 1 l^m QO fiilwn 7n*///>r in his bosom for one, and found none, 
truit yields the solid oil known asju/wa-ouuej. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Pi-ogress, p. 216. 
fumt (fum), v. i. [Perhaps intended to be imi- 
tative.] To play upon a fiddle ; thrum. 
Follow me, and/unt as you go. B. Jonson. 
fnmaceous (fu-ma'shius), a. [Also fumaeious ; 
, um nL-o Coo L f,,,,, f \ -i- -firpmit 1 my pen, my understanding flutters, and my memory /um- 
C L. Jumux, smoke (see Jume), -I -aceous.\ jj^v Chesterfield, Misc. Works, IV. Ixxi. 
Smoky ; hence pertaining to smoke or smok- and ^ ^ 
ing; addicted to smoking tobacco. _ We, after the author. N. A. jtev.,CX.LIII.M. 
fumado (fu-ma'do), . [< Sp. fumado, pp. of He wag neyer at rest for an , n8tant> but changed h , 8 
fumnr, smoke, < Ij.fumare, smoke: see fume.] S ,,p p0 rt from one leg to the other, . . . and fumbled, as 
A smoked fish, especially a smoked pilchard. it were, with his feet. 
Am not I a friend to help you out? You would have 
beeafumbling half an hour for this excuse. 
Dryden, Spanish Friar. 
My hand trembles to that degree that I can hardly hold 
Cornish pilchards, otherwise called fumados. 
J. W. Painter, The New and the Old, p. 124. 
, Lenten stutfe (Harl. Misc., VI. 165). 2f. To stutter; stammer; hesitate in speech ; 
Those [fish] that seme for the hotter countries they . . . 
vsed at flrst to fume by hanging them vp on long sticks one 
by one ... & drying them with the sinoake of a soft and 
coutiniiall flre, from which they purchased the name of 
fmnadoet. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, p. S3. 
mumble. 
He fumbles up into a loose adieu. 
Shak., T. and C., iv. 4. 
Hefumbltth in the mouth, 
His speech doth fail. Tragedy of King John (1611). 
South, Sermons. 
5. Anything comparable to fume or vapor, 
from being unsubstantial or fleeting, as an idle 
conceit, a vain imagination, and the like. 
Such natural philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume 
of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 125. 
Memory, the warder of the brain, 
Shall be a. fume, and the receipt of reason 
A limbeck only. Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. 
To know 
That which before us lies in daily life 
Is the prime wisdom : what is more is fume, 
Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. 
Milton, P. L.,viii. 194. 
6. The incense of praise; hence, inordinate 
flattery. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Pardon, great prelate, sith I thus presume 
To sence perfection with imperfect/uwie. 
Danes, To Worthy Persons. 
To smother him with/imis and eulogies . . . because 
he is rich. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., Democritus to the Reader, p. 34. 
7. One apt to get into a fume; a passionate 
person. Danes. [Rare.] 
The notary's wife was a little fume of a woman, and the 
notary thought it well to avoid a hurricane by a mild re- 
ply. Sterne, Sentimental Journey. 
fumaget, [< OF.fumage,^LL. fumagium, fuel He heard h , 8 wjfe Ca ip Urniaj being fast asleep, weep fume (fum), v. ; pret. and pp. fumed, ppr. fum- 
ing. [< F. fumer = Pr. Sp. Pg. fumar = It. 
fumare, < Ij.funiare, smoke, steam, reek, fume, 
< fumus, smoke, steam : see fume, n. In comp. 
effvme, infume, perfume."] I. intrans. 1. To 
smoke ; throw off smoke in combustion. 
Clad 
With incense, where the golden altar fumed. 
Milton, P. L., xi. 18. 
The rain increases. The flre sputters and fumes. 
C. D. Warner, In the Wilderness, vi. 
2. To emit any smoky or invisible vaporous 
exhalation ; throw off narcotic, stifling, pun- 
gent, fragrant, or otherwise noticeable volatile 
matter. 
The Work-houses where the Lacker is laid on are ac- 
counted very unwholsom, by reason of a poisonous qual- 
ity, said to be in the Lack, which fumes into the Brains 
through the Nostrils of those that work at it, making 
them break out in botches and biles. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 62. 
Some, as she sipp'd, the fuming liquor fann'd. 
Pope, E. of the L., iii. 114. 
3. To be confused by emotion, excitement, or 
excess, as if by stupefying or poisonous fumes. 
Ay me the dayes that I in dole consume ! 
Alas the nights which witnesse well mine woe ! 
O wrongfull world wich makest my f ancle /ume '. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 177. 
Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts ; 
Keep his brain fuming. Shak., A. and C., ii. 1. 
4. To pass off in vapor. 
Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. 
G. Chei/ne. 
The shows 
That for oblivion take their daily birth 
From all the fuming vanities of Earth 1 
Wordsworth, Sky Prospect. 
They crushed the whole mass [of ore] into powder, and 
then did something to it applied heat, I believe to 
drive away the sulphur. That fumed off, and left the 
rest as promiscuous as before. 
Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, xi. 
5. To be angered or irritated; be in a passion. 
Their vineyards he destroyed round, 
Which made them fret and fume. 
Samson (Child's Ballads, VIII. 204). 
What have you done? she chafes and fumes outrageously, 
And still they persecute her. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, iv. 4. 
Fuming liquor, in chem., one of various preparations 
which emit fumes on exposure to the air. =Syn. 1 and 2. 
To reek. 5. To fret, chafe, storm. 
II. trans. If. To smoke; dry in smoke; fu- 
migate. 
(also used as an equiv. oifocagium, foagium, a al ,a sigh, and put forth many fumbling lamentable 
hearth-tax, also the right of cutting fuel) (see speeches. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 613. 
feuage, focage), < L. fumus, smoke : see fume."] JJ_ trans. 1. To find by groping ; secure or 
A tax on chimneys ; hearth-money. Alsofuage. ascertain by feeling about blindly or clumsily. 
Pumage, orfuaije, vulgarly called smoke-farthings. j^te that night a small square man, in a wet overcoat, 
Blackitone, Com., I. vni. f uma itd his way into the damp entrance of the house. 
A fumage, or tax of smoke farthings, or hearth tax, ' G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 13. 
. 'ranges among those of t J le t] A ,"gJ ^ x I ^y ( } a eri 2j- ok Sut jt Specifically 2. In base-ball, to stop or catch, 
seems' to^ave'been^cuttomai-y p'ayment'to'tne king for as the ball, in such a clumsy manner that an 
every hearth in all houses except those of the poor. opportunity is lost to put out an opponent. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, I. 12. 3^ TO manage awkwardly ; crowd or tumble to- 
fumant (fu'mant), a. [< F. fumant, ppr. of gether; jumble. 
I'linicr, smoke : see fume."] In her., emitting fumble (fum'bl), n. [< fumble, ;.] The act of 
vapor or smoke. groping ; awkward attempt ; aimless search. 
fumarate (fu'ma-rat), n. [<fumar-k; + -rtfc 1 .] [Rare.] 
In chem., a salt of fumaric acid. The world's a well strung fidle, mans tongue the quill, 
Fumaria 1 (fu-ma'ri-a), n. [NL. (also Sp. Pg.), That fills the world with/uwidfe for want of skill. 
< L. fumus, smoke: see/ro, n. Ct. fumitory* ."} * " r , Simple Cobler, P . 87. 
A genus of delicate herbaceous plants, the type fumbler (fum'bler), n. One who fumbles or 
of the order Fumariacece, distinguished by the gropes. 
single spur of the corolla and a globular one- fumblingly (fum'bling-li), adv. In a fumbling, 
seeded fruit. The species are all natives of the old awkward, hesitating, or stammering manner, 
world, and several are weeds In cultivated fields in Europe. Many good Sc i, o n ar8 speake but fumblingli/ ; like a rich 
The common fumitory, /. oficuiahs, now naturalized in man that {or want of particular liote and difference can 
most civilized countries, has a bitter, acrid taste, and was bri u no certa i ne ware readily out of his shop, 
in repute from early times as a remedy for a variety of B j onson , Discoveries. 
fumaria 2 , . Plural offumarium. fume (fum), n. [< ME. fume, < OF. fum (F. dial. 
Fumariacese (fu-ma-ri-a'se-e), n. pi [NL., < /), m., also/me, ., and/?wee, F.fttmee = 
fumaria + -aeece."] A natural order of plants, Pr.fum = OSp. fumo, Sp. humo = Pg. It.fumo, 
nearly allied to the Papaveraeeai, and some- < L- fumus, smoke, steam, fume, = Skt. dhuma, 
times united with that order, from which it is smoke, perhaps < / dim, shake.] If. Smoke. 
distinguished by the irregular corolla, with its 
4 petals in dissimilar pairs, and by the 6 dia- 
delphous stamens. The foliage is much dissected, 
and the juice is colorless and inert. There are 7 genera, 
including about 100 species. The principal genera are 
Corydalin, Fumaria, and Dicentra. See cuts under Cory- 
dalis and Dicentra. 
fumariaceOUS (fu-ma-ri-a'shius), a. Belonging 
to or resembling the Fttmariacex. 
fumaric (fu-mar'ik), a. [< Fumar-ia + -ic."] 
In chem., pertaining to or obtained from fumi- 
of heat on malic acid. It exists ready-formed in several 
As from the tyre depertith fume, 
So body and sowle asondre goothe. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 20. (HattiwtU.) 
Great pity too 
That, having wielded th' elements and built 
A thousand systems, each in his own way, 
They should go out in fume and be forgot. 
Cowper, Task, iii. 
2f. Incense. 
Send a fume, and keep the air 
Pure and wholesome, sweet and blest. 
Fliteher, Faithful Shepherdess, v. 2. 
? A *y 8raok 7 ?/ ln ibl * p or r e f x fl h . ala - 
tion, especially if possessing narcotic, Stifling, 
plants, as in common fumitory and Cetraria Txlandica. or other marked properties; volatile matter 
It forms flue, soft, micaceous scales, soluble in water and arising from anything; an exhalation : gener- 
alcnhoi. Formerly called glaueic acid ally in the plural: as, the /wraes of tobacco ; the 
fumanum fa-mS'ri-um), . ; pi. fumana (-a). . ; f b rni sul ' hu / tbefumes of w i ne . 
[LL., a smoke-chamber, ML. also a chimney, 
< L. fumus, smoke : see fume, .] A garret fn a J^^^&^STM 
some ancient Roman houses, used as a drying- 
place for wood and for seasoning wine, smoke 
if grete sweteuesse was felte in suche wyse that 
smote his hondes to-gyder for ioye. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 157. 
