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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pore" Quotes from Famous Books

... man, I w-want to t-tell you right now that you're talkin' blasphemy when you say you're n-no good. The good Lord made you, didn't He? D-d' you reckon I'm goin' to let you stand up there an' claim He did a pore job? No, sir. Trouble with you is you go an' bury yore talent instead of w-whalin' the stuffin' outa ...

— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine

... flat gold hunting-watch ticked above his head in the little embroidered chamois-leather pouch dead hands had worked, Knowledge came to him with a sudden rigor of the muscles of the wasted body, and a bursting forth from every pore of the dank, dark-hued sweat of ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... "—for years now you've been working and overworking—on these wretched animals, and neglecting the society of your fellow-men. You pore over animals, you probe into animals, you're always thinking about animals; which amounts to consorting with animals—at their worst, too. . . . I tell you, Jack, it won't do. I've had my doubts for some time, but to-night I'm sure of it. ...

— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... our feet, the flame absolutely running on before us upon the dry grass and scrub, and the scorching withering every drop of moisture from us, though not ten minutes before, we had been streaming at every pore. ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Every pore, it is said, may contain from twenty to forty of these plants, and each plant may shed a hundred seeds,[4] so that a single shrub, infected with the disease, may disseminate it over the face of a whole ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

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