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Foment
(v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
(v. t.) To cherish with heat; to foster.
(v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
(n.) Fomentation.
(n.) State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment.
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