OOZE

seepage, ooze, oozing

(noun) the process of seeping

sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze

(noun) any thick, viscous matter

exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze

(verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; “exude sweat through the pores”

seep, ooze

(verb) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.

(obsolete) Secretion, humour.

(obsolete) Juice, sap.

Verb

ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)

(intransitive) To be secreted or slowly leak.

(transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Etymology 2

Noun

ooze (plural oozes)

Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

(oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

Source: Wiktionary

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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, 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, v. t.

Definition: To cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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