PORED

Etymology

Verb

pored

simple past tense and past participle of pore

Adjective

pored (comparative more pored, superlative most pored)

Having or furnished with pores

Anagrams

• Pedro, doper, orped, repod, roped

Source: Wiktionary


PORE

Pore, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. porus, Gr. Fare, v.]

1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

Pore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pored; p. pr. & vb. n. Poring.] Etym: [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.]

Definition: To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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