spume

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For flying spume, and waves that whip the skies;

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  1. noun Foam or froth on a liquid, as on the sea.
  2. intransitive verb To froth or foam.

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  • Lucy narrowed her eyes against the sting of the salt-laden spume, envying its freedom. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
  • After half an hour, when the spume was just a phosphorescent glow in the rising moonlight and Mark's teeth were chattering with cold, he switched on the engine and headed back to Shenstead Certain truths had become clear to him once the red mist had faded. —  Fox Evil
  • [75] In the same way, when he is tragic, it is not with thick clouds rent in the fury of their flight, or with the light from shaken torches cast and scattered like spume-flakes from the angry waves; nor is it with the accumulated night that gives intense significance to a single tranquil ray. —  Albert Durer
  • Lucy jumped as a spume of water shot into the air a few feet from Ned. —  The Empty Chair
  • The yeast-spume was piled in hills against the cliffs, among the big rocks, and in swung the raving yellow water, in great dull blows under the land, hoarsely surging out of the dim yellow blank of the sea. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.

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  1. from Middle English spume, from Old French (and F.) spume = Spanish Portuguese espuma = Italian spuma, from Latin spuma, foam. Cf. foam; cf. also spoom.
  2. from spume, n.
 

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