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

Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.…

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. [Obs.] Blount.

Same as Sea mud. Mortimer.

A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]

To drink excessively. See Booze.

A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.

To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

A toper; a boozer.

To carouse; to bouse; to booze. De Quincey.

To make unlike a prince. [R.] For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.

To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman.

part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.

kept for sale. -- Junk vat (Leather Manuf.), a large vat into which spent tan liquor or ooze is pumped. -- Junk wad (Mil.), a wad used in proving cannon; also used in firing hot shot.

Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river. Pope.

See Ooze. [Obs.]

See Ooze. [Obs.]

Tanner's ooze. See Ooze, 3.