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Definition of Lathery
1. Adjective. Resembling lather or covered with lather.
Definition of Lathery
1. Adjective. Resembling or covered in lather, foamy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lathery
1. covered with lather [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lathery
Literary usage of Lathery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe (1873)
"... when you will find that the soap does not make the water lathery but curdy,
until after you have added more soap solution, when the froth appears. ..."
2. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments; and Other by Episcopal Church (1854)
"... In the way the lathery Inn! : They are happy now, and we Soon their happiness
shall see. 3 Banish'd once, ..."
3. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"... lathery with froth ; but no effects. At last I ask a group of fishermen smoking
stolidly, in a sort of glum parliament, under the black side of a small ..."
4. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1901)
"McG lathery, Weaver and Lack, to confer with a similar committee of the
Senate (already appointed) on the subject of the differences existing between the ..."
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