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To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. Milton.

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

To foment anew.

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar. My own breath still foments the fire, Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. Waller.

aining to, or obtained from, the Boletus. Boletic acid, an acid obtained from the Boletus fomentarius, variety pseudo-igniarius. Same as Fumaric acid.

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! Milton.

that soweth discord among brethren. Prov. vi. 19. Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire. Burke.

An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter. "Foment with discutiens." Wiseman.

The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. "Used by way of fomentation, insession, or bath." [R.] Holland.

A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.

To foment with a stupe. Wiseman.

e a virtual transition, without communication of substance. Bacon. Every kind that lives, Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed. Milton.