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spumy, a.|ˈspjuːmɪ|
Also 6 spumye, 7 spumie.
[f. spume n.]
1. Covered with, throwing up, of the nature of, sea-foam.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 87 Thee rocks sternelye facing with salt fluds spumye be drumming. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 368 The spumy Waves proclaim the watry War. 1741H. Brooke Constantia, The Tiber now their spumy keels divide. 1797T. Park Sonn. 7 High o'er the beech froths up the spumy spray. 1819H. Busk Banquet ii. 164 The spumy Rhone, or easy-winding Loire. 1894Outing XXIV. 264/2 Great rollers, with their crest torn into spumy wreaths, rose higher and higher.
2. Of a frothy character or consistency; characterized by the presence of froth.
a1618Sylvester Maiden's Blush 1122 Swelling Clusters.., Whose spumy Juice in Pharao's cup I crush. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vii. (1626) 137 Cerberus..on the grasse his spumy poyson sheds. 1641Wilkins Mercury Pref. (1707) 4 Though what the Author write prove spumy Froth. 1740Somerville Hobbinolia iii. 89 Matrons sage..Grasp the capacious Bowl; nor cease to draw The spumy Nectar. 1788Burns Ep. R. Graham iii, Some spumy, fiery, ignis fatuus matter. 1819Keats Song of Four Faeries 16 Let me see the myriad shapes..wrought by spumy bitumen. |