Spume vs Despumate - What's the difference?
spume | despumate |
Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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To froth.
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To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
(Webster 1913)
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As verbs the difference between spume and despumate
is that spume is to froth while despumate is to throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.As a noun spume
is foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water.spume
English
Noun
(-)- Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume .
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- 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.