To cherish with heat; to foster.

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.

State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment.

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"

try to stir up public opinion

Fomentation.