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noun

Pore n.

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

verb

Pore v. i. (past & past part. pored; pres. part. poring) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; often with on or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." "The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing."

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Etymology of 'Pore'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pore" Quotes from Famous Books

... variation, within certain limits. It contains an immense number of species, and these are daily being augmented. The general feature in all is the presence of a perithecium, which contains and encloses the hymenium, and at length opening by a pore or ostiolum at the apex. In some the perithecia are simple, in others compound; in some immersed in a stroma, in others free; in some fleshy or waxy, in others carbonaceous, and in others membranaceous. But in all there is this important difference ...

— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... as if suddenly capped with a vast extinguisher. But at the same moment the flames roared in through the broken bulwarks and drove every man away, scorched and singed. Houten handled his rifle expertly and unhurriedly, though his fat face and immense body streamed sweat at every pore, and his clothes were steaming with the fierce heat. Blood dripped from his injured arm, but gave him not the slightest concern. He said nothing, did not attempt to advise Barry, simply kept up his end as one man of the crew, ...

— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... of an appalling sum. This is invented for me, and delivered to me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, 'If I go into a cheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucester cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment'—at which I see Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed. I pore over these cheeses without any result or enlightenment until dinner-time, when, having made a Mulatto of myself by getting the dirt of the slate into the pores of my skin, I have a slice of bread to help me out with ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... humidity of the soil air usually approaches 100 percent. Soil animals consequently have not developed the ability to conserve their body moisture and are speedily killed by dry conditions. When faced with desiccation they retreat deeper into the soil if there is oxygen and pore spaces large enough to move about. So we see another reason why a thin mulch that preserves surface moisture can greatly increase the beneficial population of soil animals. Some single-cell animals and roundworms are capable ...

— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... afternoon for a walk. The blue Indian summer opens blandly around, and imbibing beauty and gladness through every sense and pore, we walk a good while, and then turn our steps to the mansion of the Masons; enjoy a free talk and a cozy cup of tea, and get ...

— Summerfield - or, Life on a Farm • Day Kellogg Lee

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