despume
English
Etymology
From de- + spume. Compare French despumer. See despumate.
Verb
despume (third-person singular simple present despumes, present participle despuming, simple past and past participle despumed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To free from spume or scum.
- Holland
- Note by the way, that if honey be despumed, that is to say, skummed and clarified, it is evermore the better for any use.
- Holland
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for despume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- dumpees