Definition of "fumid" [fu•mid]

• Smoky, vaporous. (adjective)

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• "First below the circular motion comes the warm and dry element, which we call fire, for there is no word fully adequate to every state of the fumid evaporation: but we must use this terminology since this element is the most inflammable of all bodies."
• "All writers incline to refer odour to this cause [sc. exhalation of some sort], but some regard it as aqueous, others as fumid, exhalation; while others, again, hold it to be either."
• "Aqueous exhalation is merely a form of moisture, but fumid exhalation is, as already remarked, composed of Air and Earth."