[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That foams.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 775.

        A blake bustous bere …
Filtyrde unfrely wyth fomaunde lyppez.

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a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 1133. With þat þe femand flode · flasshed in hys eghen.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 1.

          His angry steede did chide his foming bitt,
  As much disdayning to the curbe to yield:
  Full iolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt,
As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.

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1604.  Shaks., Oth., II. i. 11.

        For do but stand vpon the Foaming Shore,
The chidden Billow seemes to pelt the Clowds.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., X. 300.

                    The Mole immense wraught on
Over the foaming deep high Archt.

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1717.  Berkeley, Tour Italy, Wks. 1871, IV. 580. The demoniacs of S. Andrea della Valle something like the foaming priestesses or mad Bacchanals among the ancients.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., III. 506.

        To Pallas high the foaming bowl he crown’d,
And sprinkled large libations on the ground.

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1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., cxxxi. 89.

        Let all my genial spirits advance
    To meet and greet a whiter sun;
    My drooping memory will not shun
The foaming grape of eastern France.

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1868.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. viii. 253. William was still urging on his foaming horse past the gate; but Hubert knew and stopped his sovereign, and asked the cause of this headlong ride.

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  Hence Foamingly adv.

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1611.  Cotgr., Baveusement, foamingly.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, III. xix.

                Or when the winter torrent rolls
Down the deep-channell’d rain-course, foamingly,
          Dark with its mountain spoils.

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1885.  trans. S. Tromholt, Aurora Borealis, II. 223–4. Stand only once, on a calm, lovely day, on the wood-covered slopes here alone, with the great, solitary nature around, whilst the birds chirp gaily in the underwood, the river rushing foamingly downwards, whilst your eye rests with charm on the pensive fjord below and the blue mountains yonder, and you may imagine that the view you behold is one of the loveliest in the highlands of Scotland or Wales.

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