foaming

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation“bubbling champagne”“foamy (or frothy) beer”Synonyms: bubblingbubblyfoamyfrothyeffervescingspumy
  2. producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease“the rabid animal's frothing mouth”Synonyms: foamyfrothing
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

foaming \foam"ing\ adj. Giving off bubbles and developing a head of foam; as, a foaming glass of beer.

Syn: bubbling, frothing. [WordNet 1.5]


Foam \Foam\ (f[=o]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foamed (f[=o]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Foaming.] [AS. f[=ae]man. See Foam, n.]

1.To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. [1913 Webster]

He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth.— Mark ix. 18.[1913 Webster]

2.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. [1913 Webster]

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