What does "ooze" mean?
Ooze: Soft flow; spring. Prior.
Additional senses
- 2.The liquor of a tan vat.
- 3.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. Thomson.
- 4.Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
- 5.To cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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