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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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
foaming
adj 1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or
fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy)
beer" [syn: {bubbling}, {bubbly}, {foamy}, {frothy}, {effervescing}]
2: producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from
exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth"
[syn: {foamy}, {frothing}]
3: covered with or resembling small bubbles as from being
agitated by beating or heating; "the bubbling candy
mixture"; "a cup of foaming cocoa"; "frothy milkshakes";
"frothy waves"; "spumy surf" [syn: {bubbling}, {foamy}, {frothing},
{spumous}, {spumy}, {sudsy}]
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