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- Lather - n. - Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
- Lather - n. - Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
- Lather - n. - To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
- Lather - v. i. - To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
- Lather - v. t. - To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
- Lathered - imp. & p. p. - of Lather
- Lathereeve - n. - Alt. of Lathreeve
- Lathering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Lather
- Saponin - 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.
- Soapwort - n. - 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.
- Lather - n. - To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.