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spumare [CL] 1 (of liquid) to foam, froth. b (transf., of container) to be full of foaming liquid. c (in quot., of oar) to be covered in foam or to throw up sea foam. montanus torrens ‥ erectis ‥ ad nebulas undis ‥ mirabiliter ~ans Gildas EB 17; ~anti flegmate proximos quosque roscidaturo ‥ ore Ib. 34; per pelagi itinera / salsa spumabant equora (Aldh.) Carm. Aldh. 1. 103; vitibus et gravidis confert sua munera Bachus, / et spumat plenis vindemia sordida labris Wulf. Swith. II 519.  b hausit / spumantem pateram [Verg. Aen. I 739] Wulf. Swith. pref. 94; hauriebant alii ~antes pateras W. Malm. GP IV 139; hausit / spumantem pateram J. Sal. Pol. 728D.  c ut in altum ~antibus remis eductum fuisset Osb. V. Elph. 144. 2 to emit saliva, foam at the mouth (freq. as symptom of morbid condition). b (of mouth etc.) to be covered with frothing saliva; c (pr. ppl. as adj., w. ref. to wild or angry speech); d (w. ref. to one whose speech is ‘frothy’, devoid of knowledge or substance). subito a diabolo arreptus ‥ ~are ‥ coepit Bede HE III 11 p. 149; 9‥ ~at ‥ spætleð WW; ~abat miserabilis inter angustias ore anhelo Gosc. Transl. Mild. 25; contigit ut puer scholaris ‥ subito corrueret atque ~aret Alex. Cant. Mir. 45 (II) p. 247; mulier ‥ subito incidit mentis alienationem ‥ loquebatur aliena, volutabatur et ~abat ut furiosa Canon. G. Sempr. f. 167.  b lingua obmutuit, os saliva defluente ~at Gosc. Transl. Mild. 37 p. 208; crura rigescent / ‥ spumabunt labia / ‥ facies ‥ pallescet P. Blois Ep. 117. 348B.  c c1156 ore misero non solum ~antia verba sed et tumida jactitare G. Foliot Ep. 128; si sanguinem faciei ira accendit ‥ ~antia torquentur labra ‥ et toto gestu non tam iratum exprimit quam insanum J. Sal. Pol. 576B.  d ex collocutione eorum [sc. Beccensium coenobitarum], etiam qui ‥ vocantur rustici, possint ediscere sibi commoda ~antes grammatici Ord. Vit. IV 10 p. 246. 3 (of horse or other animal) to foam at the mouth or to be covered in perspiration. b (transf., of bridle) to be covered in foam. equus ‥ / coeperat et frendens ore spumare cruento Alcuin SS Ebor 317; ~antis equi tergum premere W. Malm. GP I 44; comes ‥ ut ~ans aper ‥ silvam intravit Ord. Vit. XII 39 p. 456; ~anti equo vectus Ib. XIII 26 p. 74; equum ~antem et fervidum Sculp. Lap. 452; equi ~antes Free Ep. 53.  b stat sonipes, ac frena ferox ~antia mandit [Verg. Aen. IV 135] Wulf. Swith. I 1272.

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