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Foam

The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.

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Bubble 76% connected

A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Lather 76% connected

Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

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Soapsuds 76% connected

Suds made with soap.

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Spume 76% connected

Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.

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Suds 76% connected

Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

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Lather 76% connected

Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

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Seethe 76% connected

To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.

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Effervescent 74% connected

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

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Effervescent 74% connected

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

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Fizz 74% connected

To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.

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Fizz 74% connected

To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.

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Frothy 74% connected

Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

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Frothy 74% connected

Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

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Effervesce 92% connected

To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.

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Fizz 92% connected

To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.

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Froth 92% connected

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

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Sparkle 92% connected

A little spark; a scintillation.

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