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Quotation dates: 1513
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Fomy, a. [ME. fomy (Chaucer), OE. fámiᵹ.] Foaming, foamy, in various applications. — 1513 Doug. ii. viii. 103.
The fomy ryver … The dykis and the schoris bettis doun 1513 Ib. iii. v. 15.
Vp thai welt the stour of fomy see 1513 Ib. iv. iv. 11.
Hyr fers steyd stude … Rungeand the fomy goldyn byt 1513 Ib. xiii. iii. 21.
Quhen that the fomy bair hes bet … Ane of the rowt
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