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Spume

noun

Foam or froth on the sea.

verb

(past & past part. spumed; pres. part. spuming)

Make froth or foam and become bubbly. Synonyms: froth, suds.

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... Where glutted hell disgorgeth filthiest gloom, Unbitten by its whirring sulphur-spume; Or whence the grieved and obscure waters slope Into a darkness quieted by hope; Plucker of amaranths grown beneath God's eye In gracious twilights where His ...

— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer

... others tottering and breaking. Some rose no more. Others, as the great wave passed on, lurched up into sight again, broken, dismasted, wrenched from their moorings, spinning about aimlessly, tossed like corks amid the spume; and still, its crest arching, its deep note gathering, the great wave came on straight for ...

— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... he laved and swept are marred with deadly froth. They are now but ruins of the vast poison-chalice of the sea, all fringed with bloody spume. ...

— The Masque of the Elements • Herman Scheffauer

... roan, and in a few moments we are in the midst of apparently inextricable horns and hoofs. "Toro!" shouts George, with vaquero enthusiasm, and the band opens a way for the swinging riata. I can feel their steaming breaths, and their spume is cast ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... her head bowed on her clasped hands, as she had knelt before, but with a mind how different, with what different thoughts! Count Hannibal could see her head but dimly, for the light shed upwards by the spume of the sea fell only on the rafters. But he knew she was there, and he would fain, for his heart was full, have laid his ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

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