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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

... seemed incredible that a man, who had recently boasted of statesmanship, should dare to make such a public ass of himself. Yet, for fifteen minutes he carried the whole meeting with him, and the warmth of his self-satisfied emotion made him ooze resplendent sweat. ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... him at intervals; as when—a red-letter day in all the great stations—a gentleman in a check waistcoat makes the double purchase of Homer's Penny Stories and The Spectator. On those occasions, and they would be very rare, his faith in human nature would begin to ooze away, until all at once he would tell himself excitedly that the man was obviously an escaped criminal in disguise, rather overdoing the part. After which he would hand over The Winning Post and ...

— Not that it Matters • A. A. Milne

... length found himself close to a marsh, or what he knew would soon become a marsh, for night had set in some hours before, and he fell by a sudden misstep into a thick, clinging mire. In spite of all his efforts, in spite of his desperate struggles, he felt himself sinking gradually in the swampy ooze, and in a few minutes he was ...

— Five Weeks in a Balloon • Jules Verne

... smote his great chest and strode to the boat, where Juan had disposed his outfit and was waiting to pole him across. Only the faithful Dona Maria had softly called a final "adioscito" to him when he left his house. A half hour later, when the dugout poked its blunt nose into the ooze of the opposite shore, he leaped out and hurriedly divested himself of his clothing. Then he lifted his chair with its supplies to his shoulders, and Juan strapped it securely to his back, drawing the heavy band tightly across his forehead. With a farewell ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... struck in useless froglike movements. His heart was beating like a trip-hammer in his ears. Streaks of red fire played against the blackness of his eyelids. He knew that in a few more seconds his straining lungs would gulp in the stinging ooze, he knew his will could not prevent his drawing ...

— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling

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