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ˈsea-froth
†1. Seaweed. Obs. rare. (In quots. tr. L. alga.)
c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 329 Other, so doluen, kesteth seefroth yn. Ibid. 335 Oildregges ek is good, outher see⁓froth. Ibid. 621 Sefroth the ferthe is go To honge vp.
2. The froth or foam of the sea; sea-foam.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 22 Neptun..glyds on the seafroth, with wheales of gould wagon. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 272 A little white foam, like sea froth. 1895W. B. Yeats Poems (1899) 235 Wool whiter than sea froth.
attrib.1643A. Ross Mel Helic. 86 Fair Venus With her sea-froth countenance.
†3. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0. Cf. sea-foam 2.
1725Bradley's Fam. Dict., Sea-Froth or Foam; in Latin Alcyonium, in all appearance a sort of Spungy Plant found in the Sea..; some..take it to be the Scum of the Sea, which has been hardned by the Sun Beames.
4. Meerschaum (cf. sea-foam 3).
1801T. Thomson Min. in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) Suppl. II. 217/1 Myrsen—Seafroth. 1856Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist. IV. 731. |