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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

... Stryver, exuding patronage of the most offensive quality from every pore, had walked before him like three sheep to the quiet corner in Soho, and had offered as pupils to Lucie's husband: delicately saying "Halloa! here are three lumps of bread-and-cheese towards your matrimonial picnic, Darnay!" The polite rejection of the three lumps of ...

— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens

... The swag had been prospected and fossicked for a clue, but yielded none. The chaps were sceptical at first, and inclined to make fun of the Mystery; but Tom interfered, and intimated that if they were skunks enough to chyack or try on any of their "funny business" with a "pore afflicted chap," he (Tom) would be obliged to "perform." Most of the men there had witnessed Tom's performance, and no one seemed ambitious to take a leading part in it. They preferred to ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... yearning for completeness, we have the first manifestation of love. Male and female loved they one another—but dimly, Dane. We would not to-day call it love, yet it foreshadowed love as the food-absorbing pore foreshadowed the mouth. ...

— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London

... were there shaking with ill-concealed merriment. Every pore poured forth perspiration, and my hair seemed to stand on end like quills upon the back of the fretful porcupine. I thought of the experience of the first sermon by a theological student which I had recently read in a comic paper, and I trembled ...

— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss

... of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old, fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

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