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lather

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
lath=er

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lather has 4 senses

Verb lather has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

lathern. [AS. leá niter, in leá soapwort; cf. Icel. lau; perh. akin to E. lye.].
  •  Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.  [1913 Webster]
latherv. t. [AS. l to lather, anoint. See Lather, n. ].
     To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.  [1913 Webster]
latherv. i. 
     To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.  [1913 Webster]
latherv. t. [Cf. Leather.].
     To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lather, n. & v.
--n.
1 a froth produced by agitating soap etc. and water.
2 frothy sweat, esp. of a horse.
3 a state of agitation.
--v.
1 intr. (of soap etc.) form a lather.
2 tr. cover with lather.
3 intr. (of a horse etc.) develop or become covered with lather.
4 tr. colloq. thrash.

Derivative
lathery adj.
Etymology
OE leathor (n.), lethran (v.)

THESAURUS

lather

BO, aerate, anxiety, baptize, bath, bathe, beaded brow, beads of sweat, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, best, 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

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Lubrication

N lubrication, smoothness, unctuousness, lubrication, lubrification, anointment, oiling, synovia, glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease, saliva, lather, teflon, lubricated, lubricous.

VB lubricate, lubricitate, oil, grease, lather, soap, wax.

Bubble

N bubble; cloud, bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift, cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser, scud, messenger, rack, nimbus, cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus, cirrostratus, cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke, thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology, effervescence, fermentation, bubbling, nebula, cloudliness, nebulosity, bubbling, frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, frothy, up, cloudy, thunderheaded, vaporous, nebulous, overcast, the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened lands.

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