(n.) Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.
(v. i.) To froth; to foam.
Example Sentences:
(1) The smoke comes down the women's noses and out their mouths, great cauliflowery streams of it spume and swathe and spiral in Chantal Akerman's 2007 video installation Women from Antwerp in November, currently at Camden Arts Centre in London.
(2) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
(3) By 1864 Ulrichs had transposed the new knowledge from embryology to sexology to explain those to whom he gave the name Urnings (after Uranus who gave womanless birth to Venus from sea spume) as having "a woman's mind trapped in a man's body" (anima muliebris corpore virili inclusa).
(4) At Dulwich is a painting, Hero and Leandro (for Christopher Marlowe), that is a white misty spume of oceanic spray assailed by a bloody smear of red.
(5) Normally the Beast starts at a level of fulminating fury, fuming and spuming, then works his way up to unimaginable rage.
(6) On the beaches below, ostriches and baboons are picking through the washed-up kelp, the cliffs are sporting ragged pennants of sea spume and the wind is snatching at tourists' hats.
(7) All patients experienced prolonged percussion to their hands while rowing as well as a continuous environmental exposure to cold air, wind, humidity, ocean spume, and precipitation.
Spumous
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Spumy
Example Sentences:
(1) At electron microscopy, the synovial membrane showed numerous large spumous cells and a peculiar appearance of the capillary vessels.
(2) Light microscopy shows histiocytes, some of which contain an irregular nucleus with a spumous cytoplasm surrounded by many red blood cells.