oozes

Noun (1)

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
3. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
4. (obsolete) Juice, sap.

Noun (2)

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
   • my son i' th' ooze is bedded.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
2. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
   • Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   pteropod ooze

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