Meaning of in a foam | Babel Free

Definitions

Foaming at the mouth.

dated, idiomatic, literary

Examples

“But that Poet was always in a foam at his ſetting out, even before the Motion of the Race had warm'd him.”

“Yes, the ſecond time he ſaid, that he met the King's guards that were come back all in a foam”

“Horſe and man were in a foam.”

“while the horses and mares were all in a foam, and scarcely able to breathe;”

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