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Bescummer :: Bescummer (v. t.) To discharge ordure or dung upon.

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc..

Scum :: Scum (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross..

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing..

Paramylum :: Paramylum (n.) A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water..

Sandiver :: Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall..

Scum :: Scum (v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.

Dross :: Dross (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement..

Hag-taper :: Hag-taper (n.) The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

Scumbling :: Scumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scumbl.

Viscum :: Viscum (n.) Birdlime, which is often made from the berries of the European mistletoe..

Scumming :: Scumming (n.) The act of taking off scum.

Scum :: Scum (v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.

Spun :: Spumy (a.) Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy..

Mistletoe :: Mistletoe (n.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit..

Scumming :: Scumming (n.) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Scummer :: Scummer (n.) An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.

Foam :: Foam (n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea..

Despumation :: Despumation (n.) The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

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