[-ING2.] That steams.
† 1. Glowing, flaming. Obs.
a. 1541. Wyatt, of meane & sure Estate, 53. Under a stole she spied two stemyng eyes In a rounde head.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, 66. A cat in seing with her steeming eies.
2. That emits steam or vapor.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Praises Country Life, 66. To view … The wealthy houshold swarme of bondmen met, And ’bout the steeming Chimney set!
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 186. Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From Hill or steaming Lake.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 68. Nor near the steaming Stench of muddy Ground.
1735. Somerville, Chase, I. 321. Soon the sagacious Brute … the steaming Vapour snuffs Inquisitive.
1799. Wordsw., Two Apr. Mornings, 10. Through the grass, And by the steaming rills.
1860. Dickens, etc., Message fr. Sea, iii. Christm. Stor. (1874), 164. At the upper end of this room stood long stoves like metal counters, laden with steaming pans.
1865. Le Fanu, Guy Deverell, vii. I. 96. He … pulled up his steaming horse by the station.
1883. Stevenson, Treas. Isl., xiv. The sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh.
1899. E. Phillpotts, Human Boy, 28. A steaming glass of hot grog is what you want.
b. quasi-adv. in phr. steaming hot.
1686. E. Verney, in Verney Mem. (1899), IV. 381. For fear … you should catch harm, for as I did once coming out of the Theatre at a publick Act when it was very full and stiaming-hot [sic], and walkin a Broad in the cold.
1815. Scott, Ld. of Isles, V. xxxiii. Then on the board his sword he toss’d, Yet steaming hot.
1907. J. H. Patterson, Man-Eaters of Tsavo, xiii. 150. A cup of steaming hot coffee.
