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A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

To smoke; to perfume. Dryden.

Smokily; with fume.

Producing fumes, or vapors. Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin. -- Fuming liquor of Libsvius (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…

The fumes of drink. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

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

A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree. [Also written ylang-ylang.]

To perfume with, or as with, incense. "Incensed with wanton sweets." Marston.

al, as lacquered wood, iron, bronze, or ivory, used by the Japanese to hold medicines, perfumes, and the like, and carried in the girdle. It is usually secured by a silk cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or knob called a netsuke.

se, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.

ndula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

To communicate knowledge to; to teach. [Obs.] Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes Shak.

gon Shoenanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery. -- Lemon sole (Zoöl.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca). -- Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid,…

from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.

ed by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.

A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.

minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.]