Meaning of asteam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Giving off steam, water vapour or smoke.
   not-comparable
2. Covered with condensation.
   not-comparable

Examples

“1845, Hugh Miller, cited in Thomas Brown (ed.), Annals of the Disruption, Edinburgh: MacLaren & MacNiven, 1877, Part 2, p. 37, The rude turf building we found full from end⟳ to end⟳, and all asteam with a particularly wet⟳ congregation, some of whom […] had travelled in the soaking drizzle from the further extremities of the island.”

“1906, Oliver Onions, “Back o’ the Moon” in Back o’ the Moon and Other Stories, London: Hurst and Blackett, Chapter 17, p. 238, The fire burned here and there for a fortnight, and then there came a light⟳ shower or two that set⟳ the hills a-steam with opaque white smoke⟳.”

“In the parcels office there were small cooking stoves, asteam with the aroma of boiling rice, set⟳ on the desks among the glue pots and brown paper, cardboard boxes of opened parcels.”

“Sara, her eyeglasses asteam, was stirring a big pot of quahog chowder.”

““Go ahead!” he screamed, his glasses asteam and opaque. “We can’t read⟳ it anyway! Go ahead! Rain⟳ on it!””

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