Definition of foam

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Foam (n.) To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action..

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Sea Foam :: Sea foam () Foam of sea water.
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..
Froth :: Froth (v. t.) To cause to foam.
Spumescent :: Spumescence (n.) The state of being foamy; frothiness.
Yeast :: Yeast (n.) Spume, or foam, of water..
Spun :: Spumy (a.) Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy..
Barm :: Barm (n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast..
Foam :: Foam (v.t.) To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam..
Lather :: Lather (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
Froth :: Froth (n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement..
Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..
Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler..
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface..
Lather :: Lather (n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse..
Head :: Head (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
Sea Foam :: Sea foam () Meerschaum; -- called also sea froth.
Foamy :: Foamy (a.) Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.
Spumed :: Spume (n.) Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum..
Frothy :: Frothy (superl.) Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy..
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