OOZE

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak.

2.
n.

Soft flow; spring. Prior.

3.
n.

The liquor of a tan vat.

4.
v.

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. Thomson.

5.
v.

Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

6.
v.

To cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.

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