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verb

Steam v. t.

To exhale. (Obs.)

To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

Steam v. i. (past & past part. steamed; pres. part. steaming)

To emit steam or vapor. "My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air." "Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming with fire intense."

To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor. "The dissolved amber... steamed away into the air."

To move or travel by the agency of steam. "The vessel steamed out of port."

To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.

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Etymology of 'Steamed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Steamed" Quotes from Famous Books

... sovereigns and some small money; but nobody could tell whether this had been done in the crowd on the pier, or when he was in the boat, or when helped up the side of the ship. The anchor was weighed about midnight, and we steamed along the coast of Samaria, towards the once famous city and ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 - Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 • Various

... I saw of him in Vera Cruz was when, on the Utah, he steamed past the flagship Wyoming, upon which I was quartered, and started for New York. The Battenberg cup race had just been rowed, and the Utah and Florida crews had tied. As the Utah was sailing immediately after the race, there was no time in which to row off the tie. So it was decided ...

— Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis • Various

... Meanwhile, as they steamed into the village, which was the destination of both, Mr. Jarvis soliloquized, as ...

— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch

... not be too brief for the impatient crowd. Its amen was a signal for pandemonium. In a twinkling, every foot rushed back to the dwelling in Bangalang. The grove was alive with revelry. Stakes and rocks reeked with roasting bullocks. Here and there, kettles steamed with boiling rice. Demijohn after demijohn of rum, was served out. Very soon a sham battle was proposed, and parties were formed. The divisions took their grounds; and, presently, the scouts appeared, crawling like reptiles on the earth till ...

— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

... know of his vindication. The fact stood. For years he had been shut away from men, a leprous thing labeled "Unclean!" He had dwelt in a place of furtive whisperings, of sinister sounds. His nostrils had inhaled the odor of musty clothes and steamed food. His fingers had touched moisture sweating through the walls, and in his small dark cell he had hunted graybacks. The hopeless squalor of it at times had driven him almost mad. As he saw it now, his guilt was of minor importance. ...

— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine

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