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Producing fumes; full of fumes. Garlic, onions, mustard, and such-like fumous things. Barough (1625).

Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in fumy wine." H. Brooke.

The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] Boyle.

To breathe or puff out. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. "Impudent fee-faw-fums." J. H. Newman.

To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

Clouded; having a cloudy appearance.

Act of drying in smoke.

Dried in smoke; smoked.

Emitting perfume; perfuming. [R.] Sir E. Leigh.

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.

One who, oe that which, perfumes.

Perfumes, in general.

Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.

The operation of suffumigating.

A medical fume. [Obs.] Harvey.

Not exposed to fumes; not fumigated. Milton.

hatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

inous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.