When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Spoom — The New Concise Larousse Gastronomique describes spoom as: A type of frothy sorbet, which used to be a great favourite in England, made with a lighter syrup that that required for a true sorbet. As it begins to set, it is mixed with half its… … Wikipedia
spoom — /spoohm/, n. a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice or wine, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue. [ < It spuma foam, froth] * * * … Universalium
spoom — /spoohm/, n. a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice or wine, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue. [ < It spuma foam, froth] … Useful english dictionary
spoon — Spoom Spoom (sp[=oo]m), v. i. [Probably fr. spume foam. See {Spume}.] (Naut.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
spooming — spoomˈing adjective (Keats) Foaming • • • Main Entry: ↑spoon … Useful english dictionary
Watermill — This article is about a type of structure. For other locational uses see Milldam . For details of the technologies, see Water wheel and Mill machinery . A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process… … Wikipedia
spindrift — Spoondrift Spoon drift ( dr[i^]ft), n. [Spoom + drift.] Spray blown from the tops of waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; written also {spindrift}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Spoon — (sp[=oo]n), v. i. (Naut.) See {Spoom}. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Spoondrift — Spoon drift ( dr[i^]ft), n. [Spoom + drift.] Spray blown from the tops of waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; written also {spindrift}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Spume — (sp[=u]m), n. [L. spuma. Cf. {Pumice}, {Spoom}.] Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum. [1913 Webster] Materials dark and crude, Of spiritous and fiery spume. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
