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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Pore

Pōre, n.

noun

n. [Fr. pore, Pr. por, Sp., Pg., & It. poro, fr. Lat. porus, Gr. πόρος, a passage, a pore.]

  1. (Anat.) A minute orifice in an animal membrane.
  2. A minute opening or passage-way; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of plants or of stones.

Pōre, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. PORED; p. pr. & vb. n. PORING.] [Probably a modification of bore, to pierce or enter by boring, N. H. Ger. bohren, O. H. Ger. poran, porōn, to bore. Cf. Ger. mit bohrenden blicken ansehen, to look at with a piercing glance.] To look with steady, continued attention or application on or over; to study with an abstracted gaze;—often with on or over. “Painfully to pore upon a book.” Shak.

The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.