spume

Definition

Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.

Etymology

From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.

Example Sentences

• "Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume."
• "No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes."
• "The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume."