Foam
[fəʊm] or [fom]
Definition
(noun.) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; 'the beer had a thick head of foam'.
(noun.) a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture.
(verb.) become bubbly or frothy or foaming; 'The boiling soup was frothing'; 'The river was foaming'; 'Sparkling water'.
Editor: Warren--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.
(n.) To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.
(n.) To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.
(v.t.) To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Froth, spume, spray.
v. n. Froth, spume.
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Definition
n. froth: the bubbles which rise on the surface of liquors: fury.—v.i. to gather foam: to be in a rage.—v.t. (B.) to throw out with rage or violence (with out).—adv. Foam′ingly.—adjs. Foam′less without foam; Foam′y frothy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream of sea foam, foretells that indiscriminate and demoralizing pleasures will distract her from the paths of rectitude. If she wears a bridal veil of sea foam, she will engulf herself in material pleasure to the exclusion of true refinement and innate modesty. She will be likely to cause sorrow to some of those dear to her, through their inability to gratify her ambition.
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Examples
- The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The rider from the chateau, and the horse in a foam, clattered away through the village, and galloped up the stony steep, to the prison on the crag. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is the Elysian fields of foam where rest the spirits of wearied mariners. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Opposite him across the little clearing stood Horta, the boar, with lowered head and foam flecked tusks, ready to charge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We both see the long hair, the lifted and foam-white arm, the oval mirror brilliant as a star. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As the brutes, growling and foaming, rushed upon the almost defenseless women I turned my head that I might not see the horrid sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Right on behind, eight or ten of them, hot with brandy, swearing and foaming like so many wolves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was not long ere he found him, foaming with indignation at a repulse he had anew sustained from the fair Jewess. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The other males scattered in all directions, but not before the infuriated brute had felt the vertebra of one snap between his great, foaming jaws. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There he perched, hurling taunts and insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In their present humour, on their present errand, a strong and foaming channel would have been a barrier to neither. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He advanced towards Oliver, as if with the intention of aiming a blow at him, but fell violently on the ground: writhing and foaming, in a fit. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Old Mr. Wardle foamed with rage and excitement. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Sometimes (figuratively) he foamed at the mouth when the reins were drawn very tight. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But--no, I will be calm; I will be calm, Sir;' in proof of his calmness, Mr. Pott flung himself into a chair, and foamed at the mouth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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