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A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.
Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.
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a.
Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.
n.
An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.
n.
The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.
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A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.
n.
The quality of being porous.
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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.
n.
Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
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The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.
a.
To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
n.
The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.
a.
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
a.
Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.
v. t.
To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
adv.
In a porous manner.
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 enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
a.
Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
v. i.
To become less dense; to become thin and porous.
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