Cadet's fuming liquid(Chem.), alkarsin. — Fuming liquor of Libavius(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 as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric.

Fumingly
(Fum"ing*ly), adv. In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer fumingly." Hooker.

Fumish
(Fum"ish), a. Smoky; hot; choleric.

Fumishness
(Fum"ish*ness), n. Choler; fretfulness; passion.

Fumiter
(Fu"mi*ter`) n. (Bot.) Fumitory. [Obs.]

Fumitory
(Fu"mi*to*ry) n. [OE. fumetere, F. fumeterre, prop., smoke of the ground, fr. L. fumus smoke + terra earth. See Fume, and Terrace.] (Bot.) The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.

Climbing fumitory(Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

Fummel
(Fum"mel) n. (Zoöl.) A hinny.

Fumosity
(Fu*mos"i*ty) n. [Cf. OF. fumosité.] The fumes of drink. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fumous
(Fum"ous) a. [L. fumosus, fr. fumus smoke: cf. F. fumeux.]

1. Producing smoke; smoky.

2. Producing fumes; full of fumes.

Garlic, onions, mustard, and such-like fumous things.
Barough

Fumy
(Fum"y) a. Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in fumy wine." H. Brooke.

Fumigate to Fungicide

Fumigate
(Fu"mi*gate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fumigated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fumigating ] [L. fumigate, p. p. of fumigare to fumigate, fr. fumus smoke. See Fume, n.]

1. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

2. To smoke; to perfume. Dryden.

Fumigation
(Fum`iga"tion) n. [Cf. F. fumigation.]

1. The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

2. Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

Fumigator
(Fu"mi*ga`tor) n. One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.

Fumigatory
(Fu"mi*ga*to*ry) a. [Cf. F. fumigatoire.] Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [R.]

Fumily
(Fum"i*ly) adv. Smokily; with fume.

Fuming
(Fum"ing), a. Producing fumes, or vapors.

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