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5 definitions found 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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