1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
PORE Pore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pored; p. pr. & vb. n. Poring.] Etym: [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.]
Defn: 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. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.
POREBLIND
Pore"blind`, a. Etym: [Probably influenced by pore, v. See Purblind.]
Defn: Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [Obs.] Bacon.
PORER
Por"er, n.
Defn: One who pores.
PORGY Por"gy, n.; pl. Porgies. Etym: [See Paugie.] (Zoöl.) (a) The scup. (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. (c) The margate fish. (d) The spadefish. (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy.]
PORIFERA
Po*rif"e*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. porus pore + ferre to bear.]
(Zoöl.)