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Definition of Befoam
1. to cover with foam [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Befoam
Literary usage of Befoam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes (1863)
"... clear brook that did slide By the popples, befoam'd white as snow ; As the
gil'cups did quiver among The white ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"befoam, ». To cover with foam. BEFOG, v. To obscure. tell where they are, nor
what they say. Dent's Pathway to Heaven, p. 323. When speech is had of these ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... dogstar infant statues split, Or fat paunch'd Furius in poetic fit Bombastic
howl, and while the tempest blows, befoam the winter Alps with hoary snows. ..."
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