'Lather' definitions:
Definition of 'lather'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither]
noun
A workman who puts up laths
noun
The foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse)
verb
Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]
verb
Form a lather; "The shaving cream lathered"
verb
Exude sweat or lather; "this unfit horse lathers easily"
verb
Rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning [syn: soap, lather]
Definition of 'Lather'
From: GCIDE
- Lather \Lath"er\ (l[a^][th]"[~e]r), n. [AS. le['a][eth]or niter, in le['a][eth]orwyrt soapwort; cf. Icel. lau[eth]r; perh. akin to E. lye.]
- 1. Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lather'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Lather'
From: GCIDE
- Lather \Lath"er\, v. i. To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lather'
From: GCIDE
- Lather \Lath"er\, v. t. [Cf. Leather.] To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog. [Low] [1913 Webster] Lathereeve
Synonyms of 'lather'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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