Category:Ooze

Ooze, n. Etym: [oe. wose, as. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w juice, Ooze, icel. vas 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.

Ooze Ooze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oozed; p.pr. & vb.n. Oozing.] Etym: [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.

Ooze Ooze, v. t.

Defn: to cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.