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noun

Ooze n.

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded."

Soft flow; spring.

The liquor of a tan vat.

(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.

verb

Ooze v. t. To cause to ooze.

Ooze v. i. (past & past part. oozed; pres. part. oozing)

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. "The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass."

Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

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Etymology of 'Ooze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ooze" Quotes from Famous Books

... of her Mother's infinite wealth touched her blood, and a strange sensation as of very lust of life made her wild. At such times she would pick the green things and tear them and watch the colorless life ooze from their wounds; she would gather blossoms and scatter them against the wind, break buds open and pluck their hearts out, fill her mouth with sorrel and young grass-shoots, and feel the cool saps ...

— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts

... under that also a continuation of land. Genius first named our system a universe to mark its consistency, and goes on reconciling, showing how creatures and men are made of one stuff and that not so bad. Let the thing be what it may, press on it a little with the mind, and order begins to ooze. There is nothing on which we cannot feed with good enough teeth and digestion, for the elements of meat are given also in brick and bark. Natural objects are explored to their roots in man, and through him in the Cause: each is what it is in kindness to him, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 • Various

... skeleton windmill breaks the line of the level horizon. The meres and marshes have the silence of long dead years resting upon them, save where the breeze stirs the riverside reeds or a curlew cries above the ooze flats. ...

— George Borrow in East Anglia • William A. Dutt

... the party was just then in a position to give poor Hans any assistance. All were stuck in the ooze, and one horse after another ...

— The Rover Boys on the Plains - The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch • Arthur Winfield

... verse, Our trivial song to honor those who come With ears attuned to strenuous trump and drum, And shaped in squadron-strophes their desire, Live battle-odes whose lines were steel and fire: 10 Yet sometimes feathered words are strong, A gracious memory to buoy up and save From Lethe's dreamless ooze, the common grave Of ...

— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell

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