Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Spuma

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SPU'MA, (sc. caustica or Batava). A pommade, manufactured by the Germans and Gauls, from goat's tallow and beech-wood ashes, and employed for the purpose of giving a light brown tinge to the hair. Mart. xiv. 26. Id. viii. 33. 20. Also termed SAPO.