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iquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

excess of provisions or of light. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.

That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.

See Fumet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A small glass bottle; as, a flacon for perfume. "Two glass flacons for the ink." Longfellow.

To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion. [R.] And fluctuate all the still perfume. Tennyson.

double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon, H2F6Si, obtained in solution in water as a sour fuming liquid, and regarded as the type of the fluosilicates; -- called also silicofluoric acid, and hydrofluosilicic acid.

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope.

e olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.

A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

t, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.…

vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden.

Same as Fumage.

Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.

pe; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

s are black. Also called South American glutton. (b) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.

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.