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▪ I. foaming, vbl. n.|ˈfəʊmɪŋ|
[f. foam v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. foam.
1382Wyclif Num. xi. 20 To the tyme that it [flesh]..be turnyd into fomynge. 1573Baret Alv. F 821 A foming, spumatus. 1709Steele Tatler No. 141 ⁋11 He will fall into Ravings and Foamings, ill-becoming the Meekness of his Office. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) I. 367 The heathen diviners had..foamings at the mouth.
▪ II. foaming, ppl. a.|ˈfəʊmɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That foams.
a1400Morte Arth. 780 A blake bustous bere..wyth fomaunde lyppez. a1400–50Alexander 1133 With þat þe femand flode flasshed in hys eghen. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 1 His angry steede did chide his foming bitt. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 11 Do but stand vpon the Foaming Shore. 1667Milton P.L. x. 301 Over the foaming deep. 1717Berkeley Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 580 Like the foaming priestesses..among the ancients. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 506 To Pallas high the foaming bowl he crown'd. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxxxi. 92 The foaming grape of eastern France. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. viii. 253 William was still urging on his foaming horse.
Hence ˈfoamingly adv.
1611Cotgr., Baveusement, foamingly. 1801Southey Thalaba iii. xix, The winter torrent rolls Down the deep-channell'd rain-course, foamingly. 1885S. Tromholt Aur. Bor. II. 223 The river rushing foamingly downwards. |