Lexic.us

Definition of Spume

1. Verb. Make froth or foam and become bubbly. "The river foamed"

Definition of Spume

1. n. Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.

2. v. i. To froth; to foam.

Definition of Spume

1. Noun. Foam or froth of water, particularly that of sea water. ¹

2. Verb. To froth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spume

1. to foam [v SPUMED, SPUMING, SPUMES] - See also: foam

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spume

Literary usage of Spume

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"And follow (an infinite spume-sprinkling train ;) The, on golden axe-tree, rolling, broad divine Wheels, in wide salt sea-flood, of stormy god ; And play ..."

2. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"their teeth, while their beard and whiskers besprent with the spume of their mouths, and wagging with the quick motion of their lips and ghastly contortions ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"I. spume, foam. petty, flimsy, idle, puerile, childish, trashy, Froth, va I. Cause to foam, cover with foam or spume. 2. Emit as foam, give vent to ..."

4. Essay Towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English. by Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Saṅs-rgyas-phun-tshogs (1834)
"^g'T^j one holding a middle way between the two extremes, as with respect to metaphysical opinions, an indeterminist. u '1!) *• foam, froth, spume. ..."

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