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Ooze
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To cause to ooze.
(2):
(n.) Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
(3):
(n.) Soft flow; spring.
(4):
(n.) The liquor of a tan vat.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
(7):
(n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ooze'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/ooze.html. 1828.
