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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.

Fumitory. [Obs.]

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

Dried in smoke; smoked.

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.

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.

It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser.

ral East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.