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

A medical fume. [Obs.] Harvey.

action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.

duced by the combined action of sulphur dioxide, oxygen (from the air), steam, and nitric fumes. It attacks and dissolves many metals and other intractable substances, sets free most acids from their salts, and is used in the manufacture of hydrochloric and nitric acids, of soda, of bleaching powders, etc. It is also p…

Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.

That which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction. [R.] The perfume and suppliance of a minute. Shak.

That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. "A wilderness of sweets." Milton.

The art of employing perfumes in medicine. [R.] Dunglison.

n the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below. -- Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid…

Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting. Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes. Milton.

also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.

To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.

e with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. Davenant.

A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.

nsparent liquid, composed of zinc and amyle, which, when exposed to the atmosphere, emits fumes, and absorbs oxygen with rapidity. -- Zinc blende Etym: [cf. G. zinkblende] (Min.), a native zinc sulphide. See Blende, n. (a) -- Zinc bloom Etym: [cf. G. zinkblumen flowers of zinc, oxide of zinc] (Min.), hydrous carbonate…