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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

... this time, the sound of a footstep in the soft, squashy ooze on the Heath, there could be no question regarding the nature of it. Miss Lorne came to an instant standstill and clutched her belongings closer to her with a shake and a quiver; and a swift prickle of goose-flesh ran round her shoulders ...

— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew

... chant, lo! out of death, and out of ooze and slime, The blossoms rapidly blooming, sympathy, help, love, From west and east, from south and north and over sea, Its hot spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on; And from within a ...

— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker

... ends of the draw-bridges and the foot of the rampart was some two fathoms' depth of black ooze. The catastrophe which Hereward had foreseen was come, and a shout of derision arose from the unseen ...

— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... true humorists, he was of a melancholy temperament, and no doubt felt attracted by all that was mirthful and bright, and in happy contrast to his habitual mood. Seldom if ever does a drop of his inner sadness ooze out through his pencil-point—and never a drop of gall; and I do not remember one cynical touch in ...

— Social Pictorial Satire • George du Maurier

... and more soluble particles, during that slow but vast destruction which is going on still to this day, have been carried far out to sea, and deposited as ooze. The heavier and coarser have been left along the shores, as the gravels which fill the old estuaries ...

— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley

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