Search:foment -> FOMENT
foment
f o m e n t hex:#102;#111;#109;#101;#110;#116;
The Salt of the World?
- Foment - v. t. - To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
- Foment - v. t. - To cherish with heat; to foster.
- Foment - v. t. - To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
- Fomentation - n. - The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
- Fomentation - n. - The lotion applied to a diseased part.
- Fomentation - n. - Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
- Fomented - imp. & p. p. - of Foment
- Fomenter - n. - One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
- Fomenting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Foment
- Foment - v. t. - To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
- Brew - v. t. - To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
- Stupe - v. t. - To foment with a stupe.
- Refoment - v. t. - To foment anew.