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To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc. There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. Shak. Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. Tennyson.

To roll into bars, as steel. To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.

A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.

A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.

Glass threads or fibers formed by the wind from bits blown from frothy lava or from the tips of lava jets or from bits of liquid lava thrown into the air. It often collects in thick masses resembling tow.

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]

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

Meerschaum; -- called also sea froth.

thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also syllabub.]

A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

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.

Spumous; frothy. [Obs.]

Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy. The spumous and florid state of the blood. Arbuthnot. The spumy waves proclaim the watery war. Dryden.

To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. [Obs.] W. Cartright.

Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth. In the suds, in turmoil or difficulty. [Colloq.] Beau. & Fl.

To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.

a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth.

A kind of froth seen on herbs. [Obs.]