What is the name meaning of LATHER. Phrases containing LATHER
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English
English : perhaps a variant of Leathers.
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South German
South German : occupational name for a maker of slats or laths (see Lattner).English : perhaps a variant of Leather.
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v. i.
To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
n.
A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.
n.
A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
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Alt. of Lathreeve
imp. & p. p.
of Lather
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Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
v. t.
To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
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A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.
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To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
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of Lather
n.
Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.