Meanings of brown scum in English

Skim off the brown scum, all the time it is boiling.

They had scooped up some of the yellowy- brown scum that rimmed the pool and examined it for life.

It was noticed that the water here was streaked for many miles with a brown scum supposed to be fish-spawn.

The pilot's compartment had been awash with it, before the spatters and puddles had dried to a rusty brown scum.

We found the sea here to be in many parts covered with a brown scum, such as sailors generally call spawn.

The sea was covered with a brown scum which Captain Cook's sailors called sea saw-dust, from its resemblance to that substance.

On the bridge a number of loafers were watching a curious brown scum that came drifting down the stream in patches.

A brown scum spiraled on the surface, and the smell off it was faintly animal, like the wet fur of a dog.

In the shadow the water was difficult to see through, and the brown scum of spring that lined the bottom rendered everything uncertain.

On the 28th, our voyagers found the sea to be in many places covered with a brown scum, such as the sailors usually called spawn.

None of the brown scum that drifted down the Thames after the destruction of Shepperton was examined at the time, and now none is forthcoming.