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pored


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  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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