asteam

== English == === Etymology === From a- +‎ steam. === Adjective === asteam (not comparable) Giving off steam, water vapour or smoke. Synonym: steaming 1845, Hugh Miller, cited in Thomas Brown (ed.), Annals of the Disruption, Edinburgh: MacLaren & MacNiven, 1877, Part 2, p. 37,[1] 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,[2] 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. Covered with condensation. Synonym: fogged up === Anagrams === A teams, A-teams, amates, sea mat, semata