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单词 spume
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spumen.

Brit. /spjuːm/, U.S. /spjum/
Forms: Also Middle English spome.
Etymology: < Old French spume, espume (Italian spuma, Spanish espuma, Portuguese espuma), or Latin spūma.
1.
a. Foam, froth, frothy matter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > foam or froth
foama700
scuma1250
frothc1384
spume1390
rial1440
escume1527
suds1592
balderdash1596
yeasta1616
cremor1657
cream1669
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 265 Sche sette a caldron on the fyr,..And let it buile in such a plit, Til that sche sawh the spume whyt.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 153 Þou seis I hafe no burnyng een, nor no spome at my mouthe.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxiv Take of the white of .ii. egges, beat it to a wateryshe spume.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 181 As sone as..purple spumes or fomes swell or rise vp to the brymme, increase the fyre.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 53 English hony..yeelding little spume in decocting.
1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) ii. 96 I thrust a snail into it, who put forth much spume or froth.
1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 13 Sulphur, and nitrous Spume, enkindling fierce.]
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 280 Both [litharges] are but a Spume blown off in the refining of Silver from Lead.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 100 Thence Niter, Sulphur, and the fiery Spume Of fat Bitumen.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xl. 120 The abundant spume with which the larva..envelopes itself.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xiii. 208 Two of these animals..joined to each other by a quantity of frothy spume.
b. spec. Foam of the sea, etc.Common from about 1850.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > foam or surf > [noun] > sea-foam
sea-foama1400
spumec1440
sea-froth1582
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xciv. 425 For all thing that are in the worlde are not but as a spume in the see.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 8 The sands..would no more liue vnder the yoke of the Sea, or haue their heads washt with his bubbly spume.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 93 He [Nile] laves The stars with spume, all tremble with his waves.
a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 244 His Steeds their flaming Nostrils cool in Spume of the Cerulean Pool.
1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 136 This bird therefore dipping so frequently into the spume of the sea, is probably for the food swimming amongst it, rather than to feed upon the spume itself.
1805 Naval Chron. 13 394 My forehead was wet with the spume of the spray.
1872 H. W. Longfellow Ballad of Carmihan in Three Bks. Song i. 60 A great rush of rain, Making the ocean white with spume.
1885 Manch. Examiner 2 May 6/2 Breezy seaside effects that breathe of the salt spume.
c. In figurative uses.
ΚΠ
1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one ii. sig. Dv Mon. A mid-night surfetter. Hoo. The spume of a Brothel-house.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 124 I answer to this Objection, that it being but the spume of humane reason, I needed not to have given any other answer.
1836 J. Ruskin Ess. Lit. in Wks. (1903) I. 374 These foul snails.., leaving their spume and filth on the fairest flowers of literature.
1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 14 That so august a Spirit..Should..Decline, to quench so bright a brilliancy In Hell's sick spume.
2. = litharge n. 1a, 1b Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > general formula AO > litharge
litharge1322
litharge of goldc1400
litharge of silverc1400
spumec1400
foam of lead1538
silver-foam1565
plumbago1617
silver-glet1668
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > other metallic materials > [noun] > litharge
litharge1322
litharge of goldc1400
litharge of silverc1400
spumec1400
spume of argenta1533
foam of lead1538
silver-foam1565
plumbago1617
silver-glet1668
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xviii. 84 Þai take alde peper..and strewez apon it spume of siluer or of leed.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piiiv/2 Ye Spume of lead, molybditis.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piiiv/2 Ye Spume of syluer, argyritis.
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iii. 51 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks They doo mingle therewith all The spume of argent, sulphur quicke, (or brimstone naturall).
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 118 With ceruse, or the spume of silver, it helps the colours of cicatrices.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as spume-bow; spume-flake, spume-flecked adj.
ΚΠ
1845 R. Browning How they brought Good News in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics v. 3 The thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on.
1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 36 The spume-flecked waters..Left dry the yellow shore.
1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 15 With myriad spume-bows roaring ocean swills The cold profuse abundance of the rain.
C2.
spume-stone n. ? pumice-stone.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > [noun] > implement for polishing > stone
slickstonec1325
pumice stonea1425
sleekstone1530
pounced stone1585
pomming-stone1615
polishing-slate1801
spume-stone1831
snake-stone1850
1831 Hodgson in Raine Mem. (1858) II. 217 There is much spume-stone like cinders and scoria in the middle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spumev.

Brit. /spjuːm/, U.S. /spjum/
Etymology: < Latin spūmāre (hence Italian spumare , Spanish espumar , Portuguese espumar , Old French espumer ), < spūma spume n.
1. intransitive. To foam or froth. Also with out.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)] > foam or froth
foamc950
spumec1400
creamc1440
ream1440
fry1590
mantle1595
froth1603
sud1603
freathe1786
sponge1790
yeast1880
c1400 [see spuming adj. at Derivatives].
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 21 At a blow hee lustelye swapping, Thee wyne fresh spuming with a draught swild vp to the bottom.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xvi. 382 The..fetching downe of the Moone, till (saith Lucan) shee spume vpon such hearbes as they desire.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Spume, to froth or Foam.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 248 A small door, through the chinks of which came a glow of light, and smoke was spuming out.
1860 M. Reid Wild Huntress xxxv A rushing torrent, that spumed against the banks.
figurative.1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 588/1 Moore preferred that his should spume in his diary rather than his life.
2. transitive. To send or cast forth like foam.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > charge with air or gas to cause effervescence [verb (transitive)] > cause to foam or froth > emit in or like foam or froth
froth1382
spume1859
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 173 Bedfordbury,..whose tumble-down tenements and reeking courts spume forth plumps of animated rags.
1865 Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 5/4 Thus do these little people..spume forth their venom day after day.
1883 R. Bridges Prometheus 29 The mountains..from their swelling flanks spumed froth of fire.

Derivatives

ˈspuming adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth
foamyOE
foaminga1400
spumingc1400
frothy?1531
spurging1566
fretting1567
fuming1598
white-mouthed1598
frory1600
yeastya1616
frothed1616
frothing1628
lathering1630
mantling1633
sudding1633
spumeous1635
spewy1743
spooming1818
despumatious1819
yeastinga1821
creaming1825
spumous1854
frothsome1880
lathery1880
bubblesome1946
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1038 Þe spumande aspaltoun þat spyserez sellen.
1881 J. F. T. Keane Six Months in Meccah v. 105 While being laden it [the camel] gives vent to spuming, spluttering, bellows and whines.
1894 G. A. Sala London up to Date ii. 33 The spuming chalices..having made the hearts of the guests glad within them.
1894 M. Pemberton Sea Wolves x To plunge into the cavern of spuming water which lay between the crags.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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