Spume vs Lather - What's the difference?
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Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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To froth.
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The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
A state of agitation.
To cover with lather.
To beat or whip.
To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
Spume is a related term of lather.
As nouns the difference between spume and lather
is that spume is foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water while lather is the foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.As verbs the difference between spume and lather
is that spume is to froth while lather is to cover with lather.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.