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[ooz] Pronunciation Key verb, oozed, ooz·ing, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	(of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.

2.	to move or pass slowly or gradually, as if through a small opening or passage: The crowd oozed toward the entrance.

3.	(of a substance) to exude moisture.

4.	(of something abstract, as information or courage) to appear or disappear slowly or imperceptibly (often fol. by out or away): His cockiness oozed away during my rebuttal speech.

5.	to display some characteristic or quality: to ooze with piety.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to make by oozing.

7.	to exude (moisture, air, etc.) slowly.

8.	to display or dispense freely and conspicuously: He can ooze charm when it serves his interest.

–noun

9.	the act of oozing.

10.	something that oozes.

11.	an infusion of oak bark, sumac, etc., used in tanning.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME wos(e) (n.), wosen (v.), OE wōs juice, moisture

]

—Synonyms 10. slime, mud, muck, sludge.

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[ooz] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	Geology. a calcareous or siliceous mud composed chiefly of the shells of one-celled organisms, covering parts of the ocean bottom.

2.	soft mud, or slime.

3.	a marsh or bog.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME wose, OE wāse mud

]

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ooze¹   (ōōz) Pronunciation Key
v.   oozed, ooz·ing, ooz·es

v.   intr.

To flow or leak out slowly, as through small openings.
To disappear or ebb slowly: His courage oozed away.
To progress slowly but steadily: "Over grass bleached colorless by strong outback sun, the herd oozes forward" (Geraldine Brooks).
To exude moisture.
To emit a particular essence or quality: The house oozed with charm.

v. tr.

To give off; exude.
To emit or radiate in abundance: She oozes confidence.

The act of oozing.
Something that oozes.
An infusion of vegetable matter, as from oak bark, used in tanning.

[Middle English wosen, from wose, juice, from Old English wōs.]

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ooze² (ōōz) Pronunciation Key
n.

Soft mud or slime.
A layer of mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans and lakes, composed chiefly of remains of microscopic sea animals.
Muddy ground.

[Middle English wose, from Old English wāse.]

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ooze (v.)

1387, verbal derivative of O.E. noun wos "juice, sap," from P.Gmc. *wosan (cf. M.L.G. wose "scum"), from same source as ooze (n.) (q.v.). Modern spelling from late 1500s. The O.E. verb was wesan.

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ooze (n.)

"soft mud," O.E. wase "soft mud, mire," from P.Gmc. *waison (cf. O.S. waso "wet ground, mire," O.N. veisa "pond of stagnant water"), from PIE *weis- "to flow" (cf. L. virus "slime, poison," and possibly also viscum "birdlime, mistletoe"). Modern spelling is mid-1500s.

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ooze
noun
1.	any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge]
2.	the process of seeping [syn: seepage]
verb
1.	pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings [syn: seep]
2.	release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: exude]

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OOZE
Object oriented extension of Z. "Object Orientation in Z", S. Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992.

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Ooze

Ooze\, n. (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.

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Ooze

Ooze\, n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w?s juice, ooze, Icel. v[=a]s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. wasen.]

1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." --Shak.

2. Soft flow; spring. --Prior.

3. The liquor of a tan vat.

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Ooze

Ooze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Oozing.] [Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.]

1. 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.

2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

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Ooze

Ooze\, v. t. To cause to ooze. --Alex. Smith.

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