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  • 61foam — 1. noun the foam on the waves Syn: froth, spume, surf; fizz, effervescence, bubbles, head; lather, suds 2. verb the water foamed Syn: froth, spume; fizz, effervesce, bubble; …

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  • 62froth — 1. noun the froth on top of his beer Syn: foam, head; bubbles, frothiness, fizz, effervescence; lather, suds; scum; literary spume 2. verb the liquid frothed up Syn: bubble, fizz, effervesce, foam …

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  • 63foam — n 1. bubbles, head, froth, spume, yeast, Brit. Inf. barm; lather, suds, soap bubbles; foaminess, frothiness, spumescence; fizz, effervescence, sparkle. v 2. froth, cream, spume, lather, soap, soap up, suds up …

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  • 64froth — n 1. foam, spume, head, suds, yeast, fizz, bubbles, Brit. Inf. barm; saliva, spittle, spit; foaminess, frothiness, spumescence, effervescence, bubbliness. 2. emptiness, verbosity, prolixity, wordiness, running off or on at the mouth, empty talk,… …

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  • 65yeast — /jist / (say yeest) noun 1. a yellowish, somewhat viscid, semifluid substance consisting of the aggregated cells of certain minute fungi, which appears in saccharine liquids (fruit juices, malt worts, etc.), rising to the top as a froth (top… …

  • 66bubble — [n] globule of air air ball*, balloon, barm, bead, blister, blob, drop, droplet, effervescence, foam, froth, lather, sac, spume, vesicle; concept 437 bubble [v] foam, froth up, especially with sound boil, burble, churn, eddy, effervesce, erupt,… …

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  • 67foam — [OE] Foam is an ancient word, with several relatives widespread among the Indo European languages, all denoting generally ‘substance made up of bubbles’: Latin pūmex, for instance, from which English gets pumice, and probably Latin spūma, from… …

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  • 68pumice — [15] Pumice comes via Old French pomis from Latin pūmex ‘pumice’. This went back to a prehistoric Indo European *poimo , source also of English foam and of Latin spūma ‘foam, froth’ (from which English gets spume). Cf.⇒ FOAM, SPUME …

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  • 69Despumate — Des pu*mate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Despumated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Despumating}.] [L. despumatus, p. p. of despumare to despume; de + spumare to foam, froth, spuma froth, scum.] To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to… …

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  • 70Despumated — Despumate Des pu*mate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Despumated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Despumating}.] [L. despumatus, p. p. of despumare to despume; de + spumare to foam, froth, spuma froth, scum.] To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or …

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