yest. (1) The foam, spume, or flower of beer in fermentation; barm.
(2) The spume on a troubled sea.
– Johnson’s Dictionary: A Modern Selection
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pro’mptuary. A storehouse; a repository; a magazine.
– Johnson’s Dictionary : A Modern Selection by Samuel Johnson (1755), ed. E. L. McAdam and George Milne (1963)