Also 56 (? erron.) frote, 78 froath. [f. prec. sb.; ON. had frøyða.]
1. intr. To emit froth or foam; to foam at the mouth. Of liquids: To gather or throw up froth; to run foaming away, by, over.
1382. Wyclif, Mark ix. 17. The which hirtith him, and he frothith, or vometh.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.s T., 801. As wilde bores That frothen whyte as foom for ire wood.
c. 1425. Found. St. Bartholomews (E.E.T.S.), 36. The mayde begane greuously to be turmentyd, and sorer than she was woonnte to be vexid, frotyng at the moweth.
1529. More, Supplic. Soulys, 13. These folk fume, frete, frote and fome as fyerce and as angerly as a new huntyd sow.
1603. Holland, Plutarchs Mor., VI. ix. 607. When oyle doth froath or fome.
1641. Hinde, J. Bruen, xlvii. 149. Hee would with marvellous astonishment to the hearers, and beholders, somtimes howle like a Dog, mew like a Cat, roare like a Beare, froth and fome like a Boare.
17124. Pope, Rape Lock, II. 136. The sea that froaths below.
1821. Clare, The Village Minstrel, I. 45. lxxxiv.
And when the night draws on, each mirthful lout | |
The ale-house seeks, and sets it in a roar; | |
And there, while fiddlers play, they rant about, | |
And call for brimming tankards frothing oer. |
a. 1839. Praed, Poems (1864), II. 50, To Julio.
Grief soon would bid the beer to run, | |
Because the squires mad race was done, | |
Not less than now it froths away, | |
Because the squires of age to-day. |
1855. Browning, Childe Roland, xix. This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath For the fiends glowing hoof.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 370. He was quite overcome with fatuous rage, his lips frothing like a mug of hot ale.
1880. Ouida, Moths, I. i. 12. The cutlets duly frothing in their silver dish.
fig. 1824. Blackw. Mag., XV. 594. For this the demagogue spoutsthe newspaper frothsthe liberal in Parliament proses.
18734. Dixon, Two Queens, III. XIII. x. 55. The leaguers of Cambrai were frothing at each other, and preparing for a future fight.
2. trans. To emit or send forth in or like froth or foam. Now only with out.
1382. Wyclif, Jude ii. 13. Frothinge out her confusiouns. Ibid. (1388), Wisd. xi. 19. Ether beestis frothinge heete of firis.
1859. Tennyson, Vivien, 765. Is your spleen frothd out, or have ye more?
3. To cause to foam; to make froth rise on the surface of; to pour out in such a manner as to make frothy. Also to froth up.
1621. Fletcher, Pilgrim, III. vi. Fill me a thousand pots, and froth em, froth em.
1715. Prior, Down-Hall, 120. The wine was frothd out by the hand of mine host.
1773. Johnson, in Boswell, 30 Sept. She made his coffee, and frothed his chocolate.
1806. Culina, 79. By judiciously beating and frothing the eggs, the omelette will improve in lightness.
1832. Tennyson, Death Old Year, iii. He frothd his bumpers to the brim.
1864. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 227. Only think of my getting here every morning a tumbler of milk warm from the cow, and all frothed up.
absol. 1598. Shaks., Merry W., I. iii. 15. Let me see thee froth and liue.
4. To bespatter or cover with or as with froth or foam. Also, to froth over (something). fig.
1771. Smollett, H. Clinker, Wks. 1806, VI. 122. He suddenly bolted out his face frothed up to the eyes with soap lather.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, VI. v.
With the dew of the morning his fetlocks were wet, | |
The foam frothd his limbs in the journey of noon. |
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxx. 415. The foam pours out from his [the walruss] jaws till it froths his beard.
1885. O. W. Holmes, Mort. Antip., Introd. (1886), 4. A certain amount of sentiment somewhat frothed over by his worldly experiences.
5. Comb. † froth-can, the trick of frothing the can.
1624. Skeltons Ghost, E. Rumming, Prol. 19. Our pots were full quarted, We were not thus thwarted, With froth-canne and nick-pot.
Hence Frothed ppl. a., Frothing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1721. Þat froþande fylþe.
161316. W. Browne, Brit. Past. II. iii. His hasty waves among The frothed Rocks, bearing the tender song.
1628. Robin Goodfellow, II. (1638), D iij a. A Tapster with his pots smalnesse, and with frothing of his drinke, had got a good summe of money together.
1673. R. Head, Canting Acad., 186.
By brewing Rebellion, Micking, & Frothing, | |
In sevn years distance was all things and nothing. |
1753. Scots Mag., July, 318/2. Which she threw back with some frothed phlegm.
1795. A. Seward, Lett., xx. (1811), IV. 102. In its tangled bottom, a frothing brook leaps and clamours over the rough stones in its channel.
1798. Ferriar, Of Genius, in Illustr. Sterne, etc., 285. Lucians Alexander learnt the art of frothing at the mouth, and the mob, as Lucian tells us, held his froth to be sacred.
1810. T. Thomson, A System of Chemistry (ed. 4), II. 534. The frothing might, in some instances at least, be ascribed to the emission of this oxygen on the application of heat.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 23 (1822), I. 177. You handed me that frothed glass of porter, with your pretty fingers.
1873. Ouida, Pascarèl, I. iii. 47. I do not think he rose all day; for Florio was perpetually in and out of his masters rooms, with some frothing cup of chocolate, some sparkling cool drink, or some dish of dainty flavours, compounded by his skill.