Lather
['lɑːðə;'læðə] or ['læðɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse).
(noun.) a workman who puts up laths.
(verb.) exude sweat or lather; 'this unfit horse lathers easily'.
(verb.) form a lather; 'The shaving cream lathered'.
Editor: Segre--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
(n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
(n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
(v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
(v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
Editor: Samantha
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Foam (of soap and water), froth.
Edited by Alta
Definition
n. a foam or froth made with water and soap: froth from sweat.—v.t. to spread over with lather.—v.i. to form a lather: to become frothy.
Checked by Erwin
Examples
- Sometimes soap refuses to form a lather and instead cakes and floats as a scum on the top of the water; this is not the fault of the soap but of the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This cannot be removed by water alone, but if soap is used and a generous lather is applied to the skin, the dirt is cut and passes from the body into the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then he left me there, a snowy statue of lather, and went away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Miss Gage was finished with me and went out and the barber lathered my face and shaved. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Edited by Gail