spume
noun
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Pronunciation: /spjuːm/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.
- Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
“Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.”
“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.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.
- To froth.