spumous, a.
(ˈspjuːməs)
[ad. L. spūmōs-us: see spumose a. and cf. OF. spumeux.]
1. Of the nature of, having the appearance of, froth or foam.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 164 Þe blood þat goiþ out of þe wounde wole be spumous & cleer. Ibid. 201 Þere is engendrid þere a maner spumous substaunce. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 86 If..the excrement which is voided from the mouth be spumous, pale, and crude. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 237 That spumous, frothy dew or exudation, or both, found upon Plants. 1710 T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 376 The Mass of Blood..render'd spumous and sparkling. 1808 Med. Jrnl. XIX. 296 Had the blood proceeded from the lungs, he judged it would have been spumous, or mixed with air bubbles. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 400 Corallum with very short calicles, truncate, rising from a spumous base. |
2. Marked by foam; foaming.
| 1854 Dickens Hard T. ii. i, Down upon the river..rowed a crazy boat, which made a spumous track upon the water. 1876 R. F. Burton Gorilla L. II. 62 The fierce rollers of the spumous sea broke and recoiled. |