From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pore \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pore \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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