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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foam \Foam\, v.i. [imp. & p. p. {Foamed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Foaming}.] [AS. f?man. See {Foam}, n.]
1. To gather foam; to froth; as the billows foam.
He foameth and gnasheth with his teeth. --Mark ix
18.
2. 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foam \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.'' --Jude 13.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foam \Foam\, n. [OE. fam, fom, AS f?m; akin to OHG. & G. feim.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
foam
n 1: a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid [syn: {froth}]
2: a lightweight material in cellular form made by introducing
gas bubbles during manufacture
v 1: of liquids; "The boiling soup was frothing" [syn: {froth}, {fizz},
{effervesce}, {sparkle}]
2: foam as if boiling; "a seething liquid" [syn: {seethe}]
3: make froth, become bubbly; "The river foamed" [syn: {froth},
{spume}, {suds}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Foam
(Hos. 10:7), the rendering of _ketseph_, which properly means
twigs or splinters (as rendered in the LXX. and marg. R.V.). The
expression in Hosea may therefore be read, "as a chip on the
face of the water," denoting the helplessness of the piece of
wood as compared with the irresistable current.
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