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pored |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pore \Pore\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pored}; p. pr & vb n. {Poring}.] [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.] 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.
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