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A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata.
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v. i.
To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
n.
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.
v. i.
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
v. t.
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
n.
A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
v. t.
To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
a.
Resembling a pore, or small puncture.
n. pl.
A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.
n.
To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
v. i.
To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
n.
The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.
v.
A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
n.
A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.
v. i.
To pore.
v. i.
To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
n.
One who pores.
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