Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.
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Spume
//spjuːm//
Synonyms for "spume" (62 found)
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Related words (31)
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Translations
12 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- пяна noun (foam of sea water)
Dutch
1 entries- zeeschuim noun (foam of sea water)
Greek
1 entries- αλισάχνη noun (foam of sea water)
Middle English
1 entries- spume noun (foam of sea water)
Māori
3 entries- pūpūtai noun (foam of sea water)
- pūtai noun (foam of sea water)
- ware noun (foam of sea water)
Polish
1 entries- piana noun (foam of sea water)
Russian
1 entries- пе́на noun (foam of sea water)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cathadh-mara noun (foam of sea water)
Welsh
2 entries- berw noun (foam of sea water)
- distrych noun (foam of sea water)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
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Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.
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