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noun

Foam 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.

Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.

verb

Foam v. t. To cause to foam; as, to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam. "Foaming out their own shame."

Foam v. i. (past & past part. foamed; pres. part. foaming)

To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. "He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth."

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.

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Etymology of 'Foam'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foam" Quotes from Famous Books

... wall of its huge opposition to the sky, its scale gigantic, its power utterly prodigious. What she knew of it hitherto as green and delicate forms waving and rustling in the winds was but, as it were the spray of foam that broke into sight upon the nearer edge of viewless depths far, far away. The trees, indeed, were sentinels set visibly about the limits of a camp that itself remained invisible. The awful hum and murmur of the main body in the distance passed into that still room about ...

— The Man Whom the Trees Loved • Algernon Blackwood

... smiting of the black waves, provoking each other on, endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help,—and still to strike them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep its charge of life from them;—does any other soulless thing do as ...

— The Harbours of England • John Ruskin

... down the steep side of the island, it crashes with irresistible force through the furze, and heather, and shrubs, clearing a path as it goes till it reaches the granite rocks, upon which it crashes and bounds, breaking off great splinters, till finally with a boom it buries itself in the foam, never more to be seen by ...

— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling

... beneath us, lashed into a turmoil of foam with Polter's wading steps. There was a brief swaying vista of a toy city; starlight overhead; a lurching swaying miniature of landscape as Polter ran for the towering cliffs. Then he climbed and scrambled ...

— Beyond the Vanishing Point • Raymond King Cummings

... bold bird, between the billow's top And mountain's summit, sweeps around The muscle-clothed rock, and with light wing Sports on the foam, my body hovered. ...

— Niels Klim's journey under the ground • Baron Ludvig Holberg

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