Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To breathe or puff out; emit, as steam or vapor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To breathe or puff out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
breathe orpuff out.
Etymologies
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Latin effumare to emit smoke; ex + fumare to smoke, from fumus smoke.
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