[ad. L. spūmāre (hence It. spumare, Sp. and Pg. espumar, OF. espumer), f. spūma SPUME sb.]
1. intr. To foam or froth. Also with out.
13[?]. [see SPUMING ppl. a.].
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 41. At a blow hee lustelye swapping, Thee wyne fresh spuming with a draught swild vp to the bottom.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God (1620), 382. The fetching downe of the Moone, till (saith Lucan) she spume upon such hearbes as they desire.
1721. Bailey, To Spume, to froth or Foam.
1822. W. Irving, Braceb. Hall (1845), 132. A small door, through the chinks of which came a glow of light, and smoke was spuming out.
1860. Mayne Reid, Wild Huntress, xxxv. A rushing torrent, that spumed against the banks.
fig. 1904. Blackw. Mag., April, 588/1. Moore preferred that his should spume in his diary rather than his life.
2. trans. To send or cast forth like foam.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 173. Bedfordbury,… whose tumble-down tenements and reeking courts spume forth plumps of animated rags.
1865. Daily Tel., 4 Dec., 5/4. Thus do these little people … spume forth their venom day after day.
1883. R. Bridges, Prometheus, 599. The mountains … from their swelling flanks spumed froth of fire.
Hence Spuming ppl. a.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1038. Þe spumande aspaltoun þat spyserez sellen.
1881. J. F. Keane, Six Months in Meccah, v. 105. While being laden it [the camel] gives vent to spuming, spluttering, bellows and whines.
1894. Sala, London up to Date, ii. 33. The spuming chalices … having made the hearts of the guests glad within them.
1894. Max Pemberton, Sea Wolves, x. To plunge into the cavern of spuming water which lay between the crags.
