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how of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange.

In a frothy manner.

State or quality of being frothy.

Exaggerated declamation; rant.

Free from froth.

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

See Sea foam, 2.

Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.

to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

imentary. [Obs.] Languages . . . grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth. Sir H. Wotton. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ly, adv. [Obs.] Boyle. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ness, n. [Obs.] Hammond.

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. That beer did flower a little. Bacon.

he surface of liquids,or in 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.

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

Zoöl.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants. The larvæ are inclosed are frothy liquid called cuckoo spit or frog spit. -- Frog lily (Bot.), the yellow water lily (Nuphar). -- Frog spit (Zoöl.), the frothy exudation of the frog hopper; -- called also frog spittle. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.…

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

To simmer; to boil. [Obs.] With crackling flames a caldron fries. Dryden The frothy billows fry. Spenser.

ps. -- Hop fly (Zoöl.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines. -- Hop froth fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. -- Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O.Virginica) the American ironwo…

Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.