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Lather

Lather Meaning & Definition
Lather Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lather?

[n] the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse)
[n] the froth produced by soaps or detergents
[n] a workman who puts up laths
[n] agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
[v] rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
[v] form a lather; "The shaving cream lathered"
[v] cover with soap
[v] beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lather: flog | fret | lash | slash | soap | soap | soapsuds | stew | strap | suds | sweat | swither | trounce | welt | whip

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lather: aerate | anxiety | baptize | bath | bathe | beaded brow | beads of sweat | beat | beat all hollow | beat hollow | belabor | best | BO | body odor | bother | breakers | breathless impatience | buffet | bustle | chafing | clamor | cold sweat | collar | cream | defeat | destroy | diaphoresis | disquietude | dither | do in | douche | dress down | drub | eagerness | excitement | exudate | exudation | fix | flagellate | flail | flap | flax | flog | flush | flush out | fluster | flusteration | flustration | flutter | foam | foofaraw | fret | fretfulness | fretting | froth | fuss | gargle | give a dressing-down | hassle | haste | head | hide | holystone | honest sweat | hors de combat | hubbub | impatience | impatientness | impetuousness | irrigate | lambaste | larrup | lash | launder | lave | leather | lick | mantle | maul | meringue | mop | mop up | mousse | offscum | outclass | outdo | outfight | outgeneral | outmaneuver | outpoint | outrun | outsail | outshine | paddle | perspiration | perspiration odor | pother | pucker | puff | pummel | put | restiveness | restlessness | rinse | rinse out | ritually immerse | ruin | scour | scrub | scrub up | scud | scum | sea foam | settle | shampoo | shower | skin | skin alive | sluice | sluice out | soap | soapsuds | souffle | spindrift | sponge | spoondrift | spray | spume | state | stew | stinging | streams of sweat | sud | sudor | sudoresis | suds | surf | swab | sweat | swelter | swivet | syringe | tan | tense readiness | thrash | tizzy | toivel | trim | triumph over | trounce | tub | turmoil | twitter | twitteration | undo | uneasiness | unpatientness | unquietness | wallop | wash | wash out | wash up | water | welt | whack | whale | whip | whisk | white water | worst | yeast

See Also | agitation | beat | beat up | birch | cat | clean | cleanse | cover | cowhide | flagellate | foam | foam | froth | froth | horsewhip | lave | scourge | shaving cream | shaving soap | spume | suds | switch | wash | work over | working man | working person | workman

Lather In Webster's Dictionary

\Lath"er\, n. [AS. le['a][eth]or niter, in le['a][eth]orwyrt soapwort; cf. Icel. lau?r; perh. akin to E. lye.] 1. Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water. 2. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
\Lath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lathering}.] [AS. l[=e][eth]rian to lather, anoint. See {Lather}, n. ] To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
\Lath"er\, v. i. To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
\Lath"er\, v. t. [Cf. {Leather}.] To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog. [Low]

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