Meaning of Ooze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
   countable, uncountable
2. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
   countable, uncountable
3. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
   countable, uncountable
4. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
   countable, uncountable
5. Secretion, humour.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
   countable, uncountable
7. Juice, sap.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“my son i' th' ooze is bedded.”

“It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.”

“Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.”

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