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in a foam en · ADP

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  1. (dated, idiomatic, literary) Foaming at the mouth.
    • But that Poet was always in a foam at his ſetting out, even before the Motion of the Race had warm'd him. 1716, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, John Dryden, Richard Graham, Roger de Piles, The Art of Painting, page 54:
    • Horſe and man were in a foam. 1792, Samuel Richardson, The History of Clarissa Harlowe, in a Series of Letters, Volume 6, page 109:
    • while the horses and mares were all in a foam, and scarcely able to breathe; 1842, J.S. Redfield (publisher), Two Hundred Pictorial Illustrations of the Holy Bible ... Compiled Principally from the Notes to the London Pictorial Bible. Third Series, page 172:
    • Yes, the ſecond time he ſaid, that he met the King's guards that were come back all in a foam 1730, Sollom Emlyn, Thomas Salmon (contributors), A Complete Collection of State-trials, and Proceedings for High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours: 1685-1696, page 560: