Froth , v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
Froth , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frothed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n..
Frothing.] 1. To cause to foam. 2. To spit, vent,
or eject, as
froth. He . . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden.
Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more? Tennyson.
3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
Froth (?), n. [OE.
frothe, Icel. froða; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. āfreoðan to froth.]
1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. 2.
Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth.
L'Estrange.
3. Light, unsubstantial matter. Tusser. Froth insect (Zoöl.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. -- Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
Quotes From Classical Literature on 'froth'You can hear pronunciation of the quotes if you click on  . The sound files tend to be pretty big.
 In limited Professions. Rascall Theeues
Heere' s Gold. Go, sucke the subtle blood o' th' Grape,
Till the high Feauor seeth your blood to froth ,
And so scape hanging. Trust not the Physitian,
His Antidotes are poyson, and he slayes
Moe then you Rob: Take wealth, and liues together,
Do Villaine do, since you protest to doo' t.
Like Workemen, Ile example you with Theeuery:
which was rumored of, and repeated in society, being by such a man.
Out of which rumor in society, and the evident aim of the Cottage
Royal, there was gradually born, as Venus from the froth of the
sea, this name, " Sans-Souci;"-- which Friedrich adopted; and, before
the Year was out, had put upon his lintel in gold letters. So that,
by "Mayday, 1747," the name was in all men' s memories; and has
continued ever since. [Preuss, i. 268, & c.; Nicolai, iii. 1200.]
Tourists know this Cottage Royal: Friedrich' s " Three Rooms in it;
" You know," said Sowerby, fishing a piece of cork from the brown
froth of a fine example by Guinness, " to my mind our hope' s in
Soames; and if we want to find Soames, to my mind we want to look,
not east, but west."
" Hear, hear!" concorded Stringer, gloomily sipping hot rum.
thin hair was in reality the great King Fisher! Jean marveled at the
fact. And he shivered all over for Jorth. In ten minutes-- fifteen,
more or less, Jorth would lie gasping bloody froth and sinking down.
Something in the dark, lonely, silent, oppressive summer night told
Jean this. He strode on swiftly. Crossing the road at a run, he kept
on over the ground he had traversed during the afternoon, and in a few
moments he stood breathing hard at the edge of the common behind
Greaves' s store.
a tepid whisky- and- soda.
" Well / and/ good," said Carnehan of the eyebrows, wiping the froth
from his moustache. " Let me talk now, Dan. We have been all over
India, mostly on foot. We have been boiler-fitters, engine-drivers,
petty contractors, and all that, and we have decided that India isn' t
big enough for such as us."
mass of esurient oil, with alkali on the back of alkali poured in,
at this rate, for ten years past; till, by pouring and by stirring,
they get her to the state of SOAP and froth ! Is it so wonderful
that she does, by degrees, rise into eminent suspicion, anger,
fear, violence and vehemence against her bad neighbor? One at last
begins to conceive those insane whirls, continual mad suspicions,
mad procedures, which have given Friedrich such vexation, surprise
and provocation in the years past.
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