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Spume  n.  Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum. "Materials dark and crude, Of spiritous and fiery spume."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Spume" Quotes from Famous Books



... buckling spars, and her tautly-strained rigging in long arcs athwart the scurrying clouds as she leapt and plunged and sheared her irresistible way onward in the midst of a wild chaos and dizzying swirl and hurry of foaming spume: "what think you of this for a grand morning, eh, sir? Is this breeze good enough for you? And what's your opinion of the City ...
— The Castaways • Harry Collingwood

... engine as soon as he got the sleep out of his eyes, and tossing the spume from her bow the little craft fairly leaped through the tumbling waters. But Bill soon saw that if she was to handle in such a sea he would have to reduce speed or risk getting swamped. He therefore throttled down ...
— The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... nature book, full of air, foliage and landscape—that English landscape art of Linnell and De Wint and Foster, for which he repeatedly expresses such a passionate tendre,[24] refreshed by 'blasts from the channel, with raining scud and spume of mist breaking upon the hills' in which he seems to crystallise the very essence of a Western winter. Secondly, a paean half of praise and half of regret for the vanishing England, passing so rapidly even as he writes into 'a new England which tries so hard to ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing



Words linked to "Spume" :   froth, create, spumy, suds, make



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