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bstance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton.

In a porous manner.

The quality of being porous.

Having acrospores.

Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi.

Having two spores.

Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.

Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.

Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid. Sir T. Browne.

Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns.

Having many pores. Wright.

Containing many spores.

Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. [R.] Bailey.

Causing sleep; sleepy.

Having the spores in thecæ, or cases.

Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham.

The quality of being vaporous.

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.