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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

... lived quietly, earning his living as a clerk in the great merchant house of Medici. But although he was diligent at business his thoughts were not wholly taken up with it, and in his leisure hours he loved to read books of geography, and pore over ...

— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

... aboard with me,' ses the mate. 'It's a wonderful medicine discovered by my grandmother, an' if I might only try it I'd thoroughly cure them pore chaps.' ...

— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs

... 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 district; for, in the warm month of March, ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... straitly obserued and kept. Secondlye, that it were more generall, that is to say, that it did wholly and altogeather forbidd daunses, as wicked and unlawful thinges: for if we be Christians indeede, we ought not to suffer, that some pore and blinde Pagans should surmount and ouercome us in honesty & modesty. We fynd that amongest the Romains, they which were ouermuch geuen to daunsinge, caried, or bare with them so greate a note or marke of infamy, & sklaunder, that they oftentimes accounted ...

— A Treatise Of Daunses • Anonymous

... tels me I must go out and let her introduce them to me. The first I am acquainted with: he is homely, but a mighty worthy Man. The second I never saw before—he is tolerably clever. Nancy and myself are going to pore out tea. ...

— Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 • Lucinda Lee Orr

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