Foment

v. t.	1.	To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid. [imp. & p. p. Fomented; p. pr. & vb. n. Fomenting.]
	2.	To cherish with heat; to foster. Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. - Milton.
	3.	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. But quench the choler you foment in vain. - Dryden. Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. - Southey.
n.	1.	Fomentation.
	2.	State of excitation; - perh. confused with ferment. He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up. - Julian Ralph.

Verb	1.	foment - try to stir up public opinion Synonyms: agitate, stir up
	2.	foment - bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"

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