† spumeousadj.
Obsolete.
Foamy, frothy; spumous, spumy.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth
foamyOE
foaminga1400
spumingc1400
frothy?1531
spurging1566
fretting1567
fuming1598
white-mouthed1598
frory1600
yeastya1616
frothed1616
frothing1628
lathering1630
mantling1633
sudding1633
spumeous1635
spewy1743
spooming1818
despumatious1819
yeastinga1821
creaming1825
spumous1854
frothsome1880
lathery1880
bubblesome1946
1635 D. Person Varieties ii. 55 These spumeous exhalations are such as are combustible and capable to bee kindled.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 28 That spumeous froth or dew which here in the North we call Cuckow-Spittle.
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 512 Far be it from us to think that it was not water,..but a spumeous phlegmatic humour.
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