| Ooze (ooze) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Ooze |
[OE. wose, AS.
wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w(?)s juice, ooze, Icel.
v s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G.
wasen.] |
Soft mud or slime; earth so
wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
Soft flow; spring.
The liquor of a tan vat.
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To flow
gently] to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or
through small openings.
Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as,
the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
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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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