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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.

adjective

foaming adj. Giving off bubbles and developing a head of foam; as, a foaming glass of beer.

Synonyms: bubbling, frothing.

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Etymology of 'Foaming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... voice boomed across the flood! She was deafened by the thunder of the waters and the crashing of the logs in mid-flood. Her eyes, now that she was sure the foreman was safe on the other bank, were fixed upon the bow of Wonota's canoe, just coming into sight behind the ware of foaming water and upreared, ...

— Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest - Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies • Alice B. Emerson

... from time to time spoke or addressed questions, and as a matter of particular favor gave to each of them a plate of that which he was eating.... This was served on earthenware of Cholula, red and black.... I observed a number of jars, about fifty, brought in filled with foaming chocolate, of which he took some which the women presented to him. During the time Montezuma was at dinner, two very beautiful women were busily employed making small cakes, with eggs and other ...

— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan

... seconds the Teb heeled over and turned bottom upwards. The hawsers parted under this new strain, and she was swept down stream with only her keel showing. Lieutenant Beatty and most of the crew were thrown, or glad to jump, into the foaming water of the cataract, and, being carried down the river, were picked up below the rapids by the Tamai, which was luckily under steam. Their escape was extraordinary, for of the score who were flung into the ...

— The River War • Winston S. Churchill

... strange delight. Niagara—the great, the glorious Niagara—may hush your spirit with its ceaseless thunder; it may charm you with its robe of crested spray and rainbow crown; but the land of Freedom was a lesson of deeper significance than foaming waves or towering mounts." ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... thus as it was with such wild and precipitous mountain sides, might have had a gloomy, or at least a very sombre, expression, had it not been cheered and animated by the waterfalls that came foaming down here and there from the precipices above, and which seemed so bright and sparkling that they greatly enlivened the scene. These waterfalls were of a great variety of forms. In some cases a thin thread of water, like the jet from a fire ...

— Rollo in Switzerland • Jacob Abbott

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