spume
Pronunciation Noun

spume

  1. Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
      Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIX:
      No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
    • 1906, Jack London, White Fang, part I, ch I,
      Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.
Translations
  • Russian: пе́на
Verb

spume (spumes, present participle spuming; past and past participle spumed)

  1. To froth.



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