Despumo, despúmas, pen. prod despumâre. Pli. To skimme or clarifie liquour: also to caste vp fome: to fome.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-spūmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. (perh. not ante-Aug.). I.Act.A.To skim off, to skim. 1. Prop.: undam aeni foliis, Verg. G. 1, 296: carnem, Plin. 9, 38, 62, 133: mel Atticum, Col. 12, 38, 5: aquam salsam, Pall. Febr. 25, 10.—2.Transf., to work off, digest wine: Falernum, Pers. 3, 3; to rub off, polish a pavement: pavimenti fastigium cote, Plin. 36, 25, 62, 187; cf. Vitr. 7, 4; to let blood, to bleed a horse, Veg. A. V. 3, 34, 2 al.—B.To deposit a frothy matter, Luc. 6, 506; Claud. in Prob. et Olyb. 54: Phoebe suppositas in herbas, Luc. 6, 506; cf.: despumantes suas confusiones, i. e.
expressing by foaming
, Vulg. Judae, 13.—II.Neutr., to cease foaming, to slacken, abate: ut nimius ille fervor despumet, Sen. Ira, 2, 20: cum aliquid lacrymarum affectus despumaverit, id. Ep. 99, 27: aetas, id. ib. 68fin.
