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   Pore (?), n. [F., fr. L. porus, Gr.  a passage, a pore. See Fare, v.]
   1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
   
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   2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, “the pores of stones”.
   
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   Pore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Poring.] [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.] 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.
   
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   The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.
   
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