a. Obs. [f. L. spūme-us (hence It. spumeo, Pg. espumeo), f. spūma SPUME sb.] Foamy, frothy; spumous, spumy.
1635. Person, Varieties, II. 55. These spumeous exhalations are such as are combustible and capable to bee kindled.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 28. That spumeous froth or dew which here in the North we call Cuckow-Spittle.
a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm. (1675), 512. Far be it from us to think that it was not water,… but a spumeous phlegmatic humour.
