froth

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For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by 5:16.

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  1. noun A mass of bubbles in or on a liquid; foam.
  2. noun Salivary foam released as a result of disease or exhaustion.
  3. noun Something unsubstantial or trivial.

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foam ·  saliva ·  swirl ·  billow ·  slime ·  puddle ·  spray ·  flake ·  lather ·  surf ·  bubble ·  mist

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froth:   frothing
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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse frodha.

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  1. from Middle English frothe, from Anglo-Saxon *froth (not recorded; = Icelandic frodha, feminine, also fraudh, n., = Swedish fradga = Danish fraade), froth, from freóthan, past participle *frothen, only in comp. ā-freóthan, froth.
  2. from Middle English frothen; = Swedish fradga = Danish fraade, v.; from the noun. Cf. Anglo-Saxon ā-freóthan, v., under froth, n.
 

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