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ooze
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ooze \Ooze\, v. t. To cause to ooze. --Alex. Smith. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ooze \Ooze\, n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w?s
juice, ooze, Icel. v[=a]s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G.
wasen.]
1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or
easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded."
--Shak.
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2. Soft flow; spring. --Prior.
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3. The liquor of a tan vat.
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4. (Oceanography) A soft deposit covering large areas of the
ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or
other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera,
Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring
in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of
the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter
being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide
in the water at these depths.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ooze \Ooze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Oozing.] [Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.] 1. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. [1913 Webster] The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. --Thomson. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out. [1913 Webster]
