froth

1. n. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. Source: opted

2. n. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Source: opted

3. n. Light, unsubstantial matter. Source: opted

4. v. t. To cause to foam. Source: opted

5. v. t. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. Source: opted

6. v. t. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain. Source: opted

7. v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths. Source: opted

8. n. a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid Source: wordnet

9. v. become bubbly or frothy or foaming Source: wordnet

10. v. make froth or foam and become bubbly Source: wordnet

11. v. exude or expel foam Source: wordnet

12. 1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. 2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange. 3. Light, unsubstantial matter. Tusser. Froth insect (Zoöl.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. -- Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. 1. To cause to foam. 2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. He . . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden. Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more Tennyson. 3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths. Source: webster

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