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To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.] Follow me, and fum as you go. B. Jonson.

Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

A salt of fumaric acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). Fumaric acid (Chem.), a widely occurring organic acid, exttracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Icel…

An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

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

An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.

See Fumitory. [Obs.]

feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

One who fumbles.

In the manner of one who fumbles.

tter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.

Free from fumes.

One that fumes.

See Femerell.

The dung of deer. B. Jonson.

The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. Swift.