fumid

“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.”

Meteorology

“Aqueous exhalation is merely a form of moisture, but fumid exhalation is, as already remarked, composed of Air and Earth.”

On Sense and the Sensible

“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.”

On Sense and the Sensible

“For vaporous exhalation consists of mere water [which, being tasteless, is inodorous]; and fumid exhalation cannot occur in water at all, though, as has been before stated, aquatic creatures also have the sense of smell.”

On Sense and the Sensible