a. Also 6 spumye, 7 spumie. [f. SPUME sb.]

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  1.  Covered with, throwing up, of the nature of, sea-foam.

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 87. Thee rocks sternelye facing with salt fluds spumye be drumming.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 368. The spumy Waves proclaim the watry War.

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1741.  H. Brooke, Constantia. The Tiber now their spumy keels divide.

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1797.  T. Park, Sonn., 7. High o’er the beech froths up the spumy spray.

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1819.  H. Busk, Banquet, II. 164. The spumy Rhone, or easy-winding Loire.

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1894.  Outing, XXIV. 264/2. Great rollers, with their crest torn into spumy wreaths, rose higher and higher.

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  2.  Of a frothy character or consistency; characterized by the presence of froth.

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c. 1618.  Sylvester, Maiden’s Blush, 1122. Swelling Clusters…, Whose spumy Juice in Pharao’s cup I crush.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., VII. (1626), 137. Cerberus … on the grasse his spumy poyson sheds.

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1641.  Wilkins, Mercury, Pref. (1707), 4. Though what the Author write prove spumy Froth.

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1740.  Somerville, Hobbinol, III. 89. Matrons sage … Grasp the capacious Bowl; nor cease to draw The spumy Nectar.

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1788.  Burns, Ep. R. Grahame, iii. Some spumy, fiery, ignis fatuus matter.

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1819.  Keats, Song of Four Faeries, 16. Let me see the myriad shapes … wrought by spumy bitumen.

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