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the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea. Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.

With foam; frothily.

Having no foam.

Covered with foam; frothy; spumy. Behold how high the foamy billows ride! Dryden.

In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.

Foam of sea water.

Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. Shak.

s; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened. Shak. The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. Chaucer.

A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson.

A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow.

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

f or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

To shake or agitate with violence. Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Addison.

To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

To imply as an attribute. The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness." J. S. Mill.

The ridge or top of wave. Like wave with crest of sparkling foam. Sir W. Scott.

o subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior.

To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.