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/lˈæðər/ Listen

noun

Lather n.

Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.

verb

Lather v. t. (past & past part. lathered; pres. part. lathering) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.

Lather v. t. To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog. (Low)

Lather v. i. To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.

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Etymology of 'Lather'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... lather, and a shaving brush in one hand, Alfred entered the room just as his friend was ...

— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo

... of the plants found in its vicinity: in all other respects the neighbourhood of the two rivers is totally dissimilar; and in nothing more observable than in the rivers themselves. The water in the river continues so extremely hard as to render it difficult to raise a lather from soap; it is also ...

— Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales • John Oxley

... Manon was preparing to do my hair. Rose returned and shaved me admirably. As soon as she had washed off the lather, ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... sharpen it on the hone of their own hard hearts, and then go to work on men sprawled out at full length under disaster, cutting mercilessly. They begin by soft expressions of sympathy and pity and half praise, and, lather the victim all over before they ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... where, for two paradisiacal weeks, she and Rodney had made their camp. Here she beached her canoe and went ashore; crept into a little natural shelter under a jutting rock, where they had lain one day while, for three hours, a violent unheralded storm had whipped the lake to lather. The heap of hemlock branches he had cut for a couch for them ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

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