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To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal. [Obs.]

ther, to be in high spirits. [Collog.] -- To cut a feather. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being consid…

Bloody; clotted. [Obs. or Prov.] Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.

Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic] The foaming steed with frory bit to steer. Fairfax.

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. Mortimer.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.

Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.

A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser.

hed with winds, rude in their shock. Milton. The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam. Boyle.

See Sea foam, 2.

1 Sam. ii. 13. A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam. G. W. Cable.

rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. J. Dryden. Jr.

Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum. Materials dark and crude, Of spiritous and fiery spume. Milton.

The state of being foamy; frothiness.

Resembling froth or foam; foaming.

Producing foam.