oozen.¹

Brit.

/uːz/, U.S.

/uz/

Forms:

α. Old English wase, Middle English waise, Middle English woise, Middle English woyse, Middle English woze, Middle English–1500s wose, Middle English–1600s (1800s English regional) woose, 1500s woase, 1500s woes.

β. 1500s oous, 1500s–1600s oes, 1500s–1600s ooes, 1500s–1600s ose, 1500s–1600s ouse, 1500s–1600s owes, 1500s–1700s oase, 1500s–1700s ouze, 1500s–1700s owze, 1500s–1800s oose, 1500s– ooze, 1600s oas, 1600s oaz, 1600s–1700s owse, 1600s–1700s oze, 1600s–1800s oaze.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian wāse mud (probably reflected by West Frisian weaze), Old Icelandic veisa wetness, mud, marshy ground, Norwegian (Nynorsk) veis strip of moist (marshy) soil, veise moist (marshy) soil, Danish regional vejs oozy bottom, Swedish regional vesa, ves, veis (viscous and sticky) mud or sludge; further etymology uncertain and disputed.Earlier use of sense 1b is perhaps implied by the following example, although emendation to wara has been suggested (see J. Hoops ‘Werder, Rasen und Wiese’ in W. Dibelius et al. Anglica: Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie (1925) I. 70–1):OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 306 Sablonum : wasa, harenarum. The word is attested early in place names (chiefly in the names of streams), as Wase (a1170 in several copies of charters of mid 10th-cent. origin), Wose (1241), now Osse Ditch, Berkshire. With β forms compare Middle English ose , ouese in proper names. Rhymes in the Middle English period and the 16th cent. show open ō as the regular (southern) development of Old English ā . The modern pronunciation shows raising to the reflex of Middle English close ō , probably as a result of the influence of preceding w (which was subsequently assimilated), although association with the semantically close ooze n.² is also likely to have played a part. For evidence from the early modern period for pronunciations with the reflexes of both open ō and close ō see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §153, although the possibility of inexact rhymes cannot be ruled out.

a. Wet mud or slime; esp. that in the bed of a river, estuary, or sea. Also figurative.In later use this sense is often difficult to distinguish from ooze n.⁴

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > deposited by river or sea

oozeeOE

slimea1000

slitch?a1475

sleech1587

sludge1649

slob1748

α.

eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 28/1 Caenum, wase.

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 85 Cænum, wase.

OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 71 Cenum i. luti uorago, uel lutum sub aquis fetidum, wase, uel fæn.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 179 He slepþ ine his zenne ase deþ zuyn ine þe wose.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. v. 656 Þe ryuer Nylus, is trowbly and draweþ moche slyme and wose.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiii. 229 Right as weodes wexen in wose and in donge.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 174 To castyn oute ȝoure wose of synne.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1742 (MED) They [sc. the ships] been nat ȝit I-setelid ne fixid in þe wose [rhyme glose].

a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 1953 + 1 They were in the grene wose.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. D j b I..in a slimy lake of mud all night lay hid in wose [rhyme disclose].

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xiii. v. 192 He walloweth and wrappeth himselfe first in fenne and wose.

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 617 Woose, mud. Unfrequent.

β. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aiv And lurked in a marrise all the nyght, Among the ooze.1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. ix. f. 188 They be full of mudde and ooes.1589 W. Wren in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 144 We sounded, and found 28. fadome water, black oase.1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27 The Ose or salt water mudde.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iii. 136 Till it bee fatted with the Owes, or sand of the Sea.1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ix. 29 Having buried him in the owze.1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 89 By the setling of the Ouse or filth brought down by the..Danube.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 141 Unweildily they wallow first in Ooze, Then in the shady Covert seek Repose. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 287 With soft Owse and Sand mix'd.1763 W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 9 The bottom, which is sandy, mixed in many places with oase, is excellent for anchorage.1774 T. West Antiq. Furness p. xix Manuring their land with sea-sand, or rather ouze.1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 33 The sheet of black and fetid ooze that sends forth a surface-scum of brown tint and sickening odour.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 332 Fishing a manuscript out of the ooze of oblivion.1895 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 579/1 The darkness, heavy, clammy, and thick with the exhalations from the slimy ooze of the swamps, oppressed them.1939 Amer. Midland Naturalist 21 678 Eggs were..scattered over the decaying vegetation and ooze on the bottom.1981 S. J. Flower et al. Debrett's Etiquette & Mod. Manners vii. 169 Sandwich fillings should not drip ooze, and cakes should not be chunky, over-crumbly or squashy.1995 Earth Oct. 24/2 Despite the ooze sucking at his boots, geologist Brian Atwater bounds from spot to spot on the exposed river bottom.

†b. As a count noun: a stretch or extent of mud; a mudbank; a marsh, a fen; a piece of soft boggy ground. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]

marsheOE

fenc888

sladec893

moorOE

mossOE

marshlandlOE

lay-fena1225

lay-mirea1225

moor-fenc1275

flosha1300

strother?a1300

marish1327

carrc1330

waterlanda1382

gaseync1400

quaba1425

paludec1425

mersec1440

sumpa1450

palus?1473

wash1483

morass1489

oozea1500

bog?a1513

danka1522

fell1538

soga1552

Camarine1576

gog1583

swale1584

sink1594

haga1600

mere1609

flata1616

swamp1624

pocosin1634

frogland1651

slash1652

poldera1669

savannah1671

pond-land1686

red bog1686

swang1691

slack1719

flowa1740

wetland1743

purgatory1760

curragh1780

squall1784

marais1793

vlei1793

muskeg1806

bog-pit1820

prairie1820

fenhood1834

pakihi1851

terai1852

sponge1856

takyr1864

boglet1869

sinkhole1885

grimpen1902

sphagnum bog1911

blanket bog1939

string bog1959

the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > mudbank > [noun]

oozea1500

ooze bank1668

mudbanka1717

sleek1774

mud bar1813

mudflat1922

a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 11 (MED) I knowe noon so redy a ryvaile, As is the reedeclyff by this warine wose [rhyme suppose].

1568 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 294 By reason of the evil air of the marshes and oozes there,..sick both of quartan and tertian agues.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1271/1 Seuen pirats were hanged at Wapping in the ouze beside London.

a1598 in MS Map in Royal MS 18 D III. (Lord Burghley's Atlas) lf. 63 [The Sand and Ooze, now Kilnsey Flats, in the Humber Mouth, is denominated] a flat and woes.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer 215 If that bruised Bark which they forsook..upon some Ouze hath strook, Or on some shelve.

1744 C. Smith Antient & Present State County Down xix. 242 More than 40 [fish] came up..and were pursued into shallow Water by a Ship's Crew, who fired at them till they lodged them in the Ooze above White-house.

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. iv. 472 There are thickets, intricacies, runlets, boggy oozes.

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason x. 175 Quaggy land about the river's edge, Where 'mid the oozes and decaying sedge There wallowed ugly, nameless, dull-scaled things.

2. Oceanography.

a. Soft fine mud on the floor of deep oceans, composed of the accumulated shells and skeletons of planktonic, chiefly microscopic, organisms; esp. (more fully foraminiferan ooze) calcareous matter consisting largely of the tests of foraminifera, similar to that which gave rise to the Cretaceous chalk deposits.globigerina, pteropod, radiolarian ooze: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > marine with organic remains

ooze1858

Globigerina ooze1862

Globigerina mud1868

radiolarian ooze1876

sapropel1907

1858 J. Dayman Deep Sea Soundings 9 Between the 15th and 45th degrees of west longitude lies the deepest part of the ocean, the bottom of which is almost wholly composed of the same kind of soft mealy substance, which, for want of a better name, I have called oaze.

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ II. i. 2 On the morning of the 16th we sounded in 2,575 fathoms with a bottom of reddish ooze containing many foraminifera.

1923 Sci. Monthly June 609 Investigators of the sea floor have found all over the world masses of ooze which are composed almost entirely of these shells. This foraminiferan ooze is the most widespread of modern calcareous formations.

1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. v. 215 When first brought up to the surface most of the pelagic deposits are in the form of a liquid mud, which is commonly spoken of as ooze.

1993 Nature 11 Mar. 142/2 There is an alternation between beds of unlaminated nanofossil ooze and subordinate quantities of laminated diatom ooze and/or partly bioturbated diatom ooze.

b. As a count noun: a deposit or layer of such material on the ocean floor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > other marine

red mud1690

blue mud1773

ooze1876

1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 532 In the Globigerina, Radiolarian, and Diatom oozes we have found..only one or two shark's teeth.

1926 G. W. Tyrrell Princ. Petrol. xiv. 236 The oozes which cover great areas of the ocean floor are mainly calcareous and foraminiferal.

1971 Nature 3 Sept. 46/1 The ophiolites in those deep-sea troughs were overlain by Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous radiolarian and nannofossil oozes.

2000 Marine Georesources & Geotechnol. 18 251 Most of the sediments were siliceous oozes consisting of radiolarian or diatomaceous tests.

Compounds

ooze bank n. a mudbank in a tidal river, or by the shore.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > mudbank > [noun]

oozea1500

ooze bank1668

mudbanka1717

sleek1774

mud bar1813

mudflat1922

1668 T. Allin Jrnl. 26 Dec. in Bodl. MS Tanner 297 f. 19^v We had a very hard heaving the Cable hanging upon an ouse banke.

1893 J. Watson Confessions Poacher 40 [We watched the ducks and geese] from behind an ooze bank.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

oozen.²

Brit.

/uːz/, U.S.

/uz/

Forms:

α. Old English–Middle English wos, Middle English woyse, Middle English wus (in a late copy), Middle English–1500s woos, Middle English–1500s wose, 1500s–1800s woose, 1600s–1800s wooze; N.E.D. (1903) also records a form late Middle English woose.

β. 1500s owse, 1500s 1700s owze, 1500s 1800s– ouse, 1500s–1600s ouze, 1500s–1600s owes, 1600s oaze, 1600s oze, 1600s (1800s– English regional) oose, 1600s– ooze.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Middle Low German wōs, wōse foam, scum, Old Swedish ōs, Old Danish ōs (Danish regional os) juice from a plant; further etymology uncertain and disputed. (Probably not related to Old Icelandic vás wetness, toil, fatigue from storm, etc.)β forms show assimilation of w to the following vowel. The 17th-cent. forms oaze , oze may result from association with ooze n.¹ (see discussion at that entry).

1. Juice, sap; liquid from a plant, fruit, etc. Now English regional (northern).In later use perhaps influenced by ooze n.⁴

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap

oozeeOE

sapOE

milkOE

slime?c1225

juicec1290

humoura1398

opiuma1398

watera1425

sop1513

afion1542

suc1551

suck1560

ab1587

lymph1682

blood1690

fluid1705

humidities1725

succus1771

plant milk1896

α.

eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxxvii. 328 Sele etan þa moran & þæt wos supan.

OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxxv. 116 Sume men..þæs woses synderlice brucað.

OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxxvi. 116 Wið earena sare, genim ðysse ylcan wyrte wos.

?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 53 Nim weȝbrædan and cnuca hiȝ and wring þarof þæt wos and drinc.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 186 Ase þe oyle op arist ine þe lompe alle þe oþre woses.

c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 6 Tak þe grene bowes of an asche..of hony an eg-schelful..of þe woyse of þe pore leeke heued..& menge þam to-gedir.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 413 Þis diuinour..[with] þe wose of þe wede hire wengis anoyntis.

?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 8 (MED) Take blac mynte and wos of the rewe, of boþe y-lych moche and do hit in þe nostrell.

c1600 (c1350) Alisaunder (Greaves) (1929) 712 Hee..laches..wortes..Hee wringes oute þe wet wus.

β. 1821 Newcastle Swineherd's Proclam. in Coll. Songs Chiefly in Newcastle Dial. (1822) 6 Two whole fat beeves are barbecu'd, So go and cram your gorges there. Your mouths will water at the sight; The ouse your unshav'd chops run down.1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Oose, juice.

2. Tanning.

a. The liquor of a tanning vat; an infusion or decoction of oak bark, sumac, or other tannin-yielding substance in which hides are steeped. Now chiefly historical.tan-ooze: see tan n.¹ and adj. Compounds 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > leather-making materials > [noun] > tannin > tanning solutions

sumac?a1350

bark-waterc1440

oozea1450

owser1704

sour1756

souring1777

tan-pickle1820

gambier1853

kassu1862

tan-liquor1882

tan-ooze1901

α.

a1450 Dis. Women (Sloane) in B. Rowland Medieval Woman's Guide to Health (1981) 84 (MED) Menge turmentill, moleyne..and sethe all these in tanners wose.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. iv. 459 If any Tanner..have tanned any rotten Hides, or wrought them negligently in the Wose, or have not renewed the Wose so oft as need was.

1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 22 Nor shall suffer the Hides..to lye in the Woozes any lesse tyme than Twelve Moneths at the leaste.

1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. ix. 63 You may use the red astringent wine, or tanners woose.

1726 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 4 Mar. 4 A large Tann-yard..furnished with Pits and Vats..full of Wooze.

1800 Specif. Patent 2409 2 The part for raising and conveying the woose.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 382/2 By some the weak and exhausted oozes or woozes from the pits are strengthened up by renewed leaching.

β. 1575 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 30 The owse of Ashen barke dronke, is an extreme purgacion... All the..connyng of a Tanner concistethe in the skillfull making of his owes.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1600) 42 Also some doe giue them of Tanners ouse to drinke.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 546 The filth of Tanners oose.1656 Connecticut Rec. I. 286 Nor shall [any person] put any leather into any hott or warme oozes w[ha]tsoever.1692 O. Walker Greek & Rom. Hist. 25 With tanners Oaze.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Scouring-long-sought Take a Quart of Tanner's Owze.1779 Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) 68 127 When you find your hides sufficiently raised, put them directly into the ooze, and go on with the tanning as in the old way.1806 B. Hawkins Let. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 430 The handler is a vat of ooze to colour the leather.1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 216 Vats..two-thirds filled with a weak ooze or infusion of oak-bark.1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator v. 311 An extract of bark, technically called ‘ooze’.1912 H. S. Jones Compan. Rom. Hist. v. 331 At Pompeii a tannery has been discovered... In..part of the building was the vat in which the ooze was prepared from the bark of trees, gall nuts &c.1999 Early Amer. Homes (Nexis) 1 Apr. 54 The ooze was made from oak bark—although hemlock and chestnut could also serve, and even sumac leaves and nut galls.

b. = ooze leather n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather finished in specific way

red leather1418

black work1587

frieze-leather1594

shagreen1677

chagrin1678

wax-leather1711

patent leather1797

satin leather1802

japanned leather1851

Peau d'Espagne1855

grain-leather1858

suede1878

pebble leather1880

suede leather1882

ooze leather1888

blacking leather1895

grain1895

patent1902

ooze1916

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 July 14/1 (advt.) Ladies' 8-Inch High Laced White Ivory Ooze Boot, blind eyelets, small perforations, full Louis heel.

1922 M. B. Houston Witch Man vi. 78 A ‘gift’ volume of Shakespeare, bound in dark blue ooze.

Compounds

ooze calf n. = ooze leather n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from calf-skin

calf-skin1704

calf1716

calf-leather1726

box calf1893

ooze calf1894

veal calf1895

1894 Daily News 22 June 6/4 From Montreal comes a book in buck-skin, tanned like ooze-calf.

1900 Atlantic Monthly Dec. b017 Ooze calf, $6.00 Limited edition, on large handmade paper.

1972 N. H. Strause Collector's Decabiblon 3 Elbert Hubbard's imitation Kelmscott bound in ooze calf.

ooze leather n. calfskin through which dye has been forced by mechanical means, used for the uppers of boots and shoes, and in bookbinding.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather finished in specific way

red leather1418

black work1587

frieze-leather1594

shagreen1677

chagrin1678

wax-leather1711

patent leather1797

satin leather1802

japanned leather1851

Peau d'Espagne1855

grain-leather1858

suede1878

pebble leather1880

suede leather1882

ooze leather1888

blacking leather1895

grain1895

patent1902

ooze1916

1888 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. 8/7 (advt.) Shoe department... Special attention is directed to our novelties in ladies' ooze leather, Oxford ties, [etc.].

1928 Publishers' Weekly 9 June 2348 In four styles of binding..ooze leather, two colors, green or brown, $2·50.

1967 Jrnl. Inter-Amer. Stud. 9 454 The dress uniform consisted of an ooze leather jacket and vest embroidered and trimmed with silver galloon.

1982 M. T. Roberts & D. Etherington Bookbinding & Conserv. Bks. 181/1 Today, ooze leather is a vegetable- or chrome-tanned skin of bovine origin, with a very soft, glovelike feel and a natural grain.

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† oozen.³

Forms:

α. late Middle English wase, late Middle English wayse, 1600s woose.

β. 1500s ouse, 1600s oase, 1600s oze, 1700s ouze, 1700s–1800s ooze.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. wāse n. regards this as probably the same word as wase n., taking the sense in Middle English as probably ‘clump of seaweed’ and hence linked with the more general sense ‘bundle, bunch’ (compare also the sense ‘some kind of fish trap, probably made of bundled straw, reeds, etc., or perhaps bunched seaweed’ in Middle Eng. Dict. s.v.); however, in later use the sense is clearly simply ‘seaweed’, which probably argues against this explanation. Perhaps a sense development of ooze n.¹, although the semantic development is difficult to account for. Perhaps compare ware n.¹, ore n.⁵Like ooze n.¹, showing assimilation of w and raising of the vowel in the early modern period. N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ūz) /uːz/.

Obsolete.

1. Seaweed.Quot. 1833 at β. may belong at ooze n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun]

sea-frothc1440

wrekec1440

ooze?c1475

wreck1499

wrack1513

moss1543

reek1545

wrake1547

sea-wrack1551

seaweed1577

varec1676

wreck-weed1821

Algal alliance1846

wreck-ware1865

society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > hose-pipe

ooze?c1475

hose1495

hose-pipe1835

hosebag1868

α.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 136 A Wayse [1483 BL Add. 89074, a Wase], alga, fasciculus.

1689 H. Pitman Relation Great Sufferings 23 [Turtles] feed on Woose or Sea Grass that grows out of the rocks.

β. 1555 R. Eden tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 343 Weedes of the sea cauled reites or ouse.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 369 Some heale their Roofes with fearn or reeds, or rushes, And some with hides, with oase, with boughs, & bushes.1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. 1122 Great qauntitie of Oze, that growes vpon the Rockes of the Sea.1737 H. Baker Medulla Poetarum Romanorum I. 386 The Stream produc'd nor shiny Ooze, nor Weeds, Nor miry Rushes, nor the spiky Reeds.1803 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) III. xxxiv. 559 Near the coast great quantities of sea-weed, or ooze, are collected.1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) x. 120 With pannier-loads of sea ooze..to manure their little fields.

2. Marsh vegetation. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > peat-moss

ooze1665

sphagnum1741

bog moss1785

peat moss1848

moss peat1875

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 245 Which Fuel was no other, than the muddy Oze growing in the Marishes of Holland, hardned by the Sun, and cut out into Turf.

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oozen.⁴

Brit.

/uːz/, U.S.

/uz/

Forms: 1700s ouze, 1800s– ooze.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ooze v.¹

Etymology: < ooze v.¹ Compare earlier ooze n.², and also ooze n.¹

The action or fact of oozing; exudation. Also: something that oozes; a sluggish flow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > types of liquid generally > liquid that has oozed through

ooze1718

ullage1824

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > [noun]

oozinga1398

syingc1440

sweating1545

exudation1617

ooze1718

sudoresis1834

exuding1849

exudence1874

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > exuding

exudation1617

ooze1718

seepage1825

sudoresis1834

exuding1849

exudence1874

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > through any medium or space > passing through a porous medium

sipec888

oozinga1398

siping1503

sying1530

filtering1576

filtration1602

percolation1613

transudation1617

filtrature1670

ooze1718

transuding1756

sap1794

seepage1825

sipage1825

percolating1861

soakage1867

bleeding1926

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > exuding > that which

sweata1387

oozinga1398

exudation1626

ooze1718

exudate1876

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 494 From his first fountain & beginning ouze, Down to the sea each brook & torrent flows.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 360 An outlet for the escape of the fluid, which trickles down in a perpetual ooze.

1860 W. D. O'Connor Harrington 23 A dull ooze of blood..had spread its stain over the whole countenance.

1889 Science 15 Feb. 131/1 Small oozes of water issuing from the base of these slopes.

1938 H. Spring My Son, my Son! xxxiv. 590 The villagers stood..gazing at the naked legs and the ooze of blood.

1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 105/3 The paramedics rescue a man trapped in the ooze of a gushing oil well.

1993 Poets & Writers Sept. 39/1 Even with about six hundred members, the colony's cash flow is more of an ooze.

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oozev.¹

Brit.

/uːz/, U.S.

/uz/

Forms:

α. Middle English wosy, Middle English–1500s woose, Middle English–1500s wose, Middle English–1600s wooze.

β. late Middle English ose, 1500s oyse, 1600s–1700s ouse, 1600s–1700s ouze, 1700s– ooze.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ooze n.²

Etymology: < ooze n.² Compare earlier weese v.No evidence has been found for the Old English (Northumbrian) wōsan (claimed as a variant of wēsan weese v.) listed in J. R. Clark Hall Conc. Anglo-Saxon Dict. (ed. 3, 1931).

I. Senses relating to moisture or liquid.

a. transitive. To emit or give out (liquid or moisture) slowly or gradually. Also with out.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > of something confined > in the form of vapour

oozea1387

perspire1646

α.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 63 Salt veynes mulleþ [L. liquentibus; ?a1475 anon. tr. meltenge] and woseth oute humours, and moysture.

β. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2125 A Pole of Willow..bent into a bow, will ouse its Sap freely.1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxviii. 535 Ulcers that lye deep, and ouze out their Matter thro'..winding Passages.1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 105 From the surface [of the plant] oozes out a gum in round blebs.1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 601 A dry furfuraceous or scaly skin, often oozing a calcareous material.1845 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 337 His doe-skin boots were oozing out water.1899 A. H. Adams Maoriland 115 The sore Of festering cities, oozing heavy smoke.1957 H. G. Lamond Dingo viii. 82 Every creek was running; every mickery in the hills was oozing water.1977 V. Glendinning Elizabeth Bowen ii. 26 He took them out and bought them great hot doughnuts oozing jam.1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) iii. 64 He oozed oniony-smelling sweat from powder treatments.

b. intransitive. Of a substance or object: to exude moisture; to be wet with (also †of) oozing moisture. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > exude [verb (intransitive)]

sweatc893

sipec1000

oozea1398

α.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 251^v Þe tree þat sweteþ and woseþ Thus hatte libanus.

?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 36 (MED) Þat watir is good for swellynge of a mannys eyne..and for eyne þat ben wosynge.

?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 71 (MED) Þe ius of byteyne..ys goud for eyȝen þat beþ wosyng and wateryng of humores.

β. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxv The fete lockes..woll swell in wynter tyme and oyse of water.1778 H. Brooke Conrade in Coll. Plays & Poems IV. 407 He the deadly wound Ere long discover'd; for it still ooz'd crimson.1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 153 This passion..made..His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat.1864 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 150 He..then began to bloat himself, and ooze All over with the fat affectionate smile That makes the widow lean.1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out v The wall behind him oozed with damp, which collected into drops and slid down.a1948 W. Everson Coll. Poems (1997) I. 73 All over my body the pores are oozing; On the soles of my feet the dead skin sloughs.1993 J. Gallas Flying Carpets over Filbert St. 78 At six o'clock the sun oozed and spat like a fried egg.

a. intransitive. Of moisture: to pass slowly or in small quantities through the pores of a body or through small openings or interstices; to exude, to seep. Also with adverbs of motion, as out, up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit [verb (transitive)] > slowly or gradually

oozea1398

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > percolation > pass through by percolation [verb (intransitive)]

oozea1398

soakc1440

filter1576

percolate1684

infiltrate1828

leach1883

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > exude

syec893

sickerc897

weesec1000

bleedc1305

oozea1398

sweata1425

weeslea1555

sew1565

exude1574

outstreata1631

exudate1646

dew1658

suppurate1693

strain1707

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > through > through a porous medium

sipec1000

oozea1398

soakc1440

filter1576

strain1590

transude1664

percolate1684

transudate1684

filtrate1686

seep1790

leach1883

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in small quantity > slowly or through pore-like openings

weesec1000

oozea1398

weeslea1555

run1786

seep1790

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > exude

sweatc893

weep1387

oozea1398

evaporate1799

swelter1834

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > emit by exudation

sweat?c1225

oozea1398

distilc1400

constilc1430

degout?1504

stilla1530

spew1570

filter1582

deplore1601

evaporate1611

weep1634

collachrymate1657

elacrymate1657

exudate1671

exude17..

exstill1819

α.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. ii. 650 Þanne þe smale ynner veynes of þe erþe ben ybroke, and þe watir woseþ oute.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 131 Yit weepeth shee, and from her tree warme droppes doo softly woose.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 900 Lest the rain-water..should soak and wooze into their Hives.

β. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ix. 116 To thyn hond wol sprynge or springes ose [L. scatere].a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 181 Tie it very close..that nothing may ouse out.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 118 A wat'rish Humour swell'd and ooz'd agen. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 146 I saw the Water ooze in at several Crannies.1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. i. 121 The Solids..will suffer this thin and acrid Serum to ouze thro' their Substances.1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 355 The spring oozes out of a rock.1822 J. Imison Elem. Sci. & Art I. 107 The water oozed through the gold, and stood like dew upon the surface.1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) i. §18 12 When a crack takes place in ice, the water oozes up.1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 446 In this way a considerable amount of water was permitted to ooze..out and away.1904 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 36 571 The water oozes from the black, spongy bog.1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags (1943) iii. 170 From the fishy freight..water oozed slowly on to the platform.1987 P. Auster Country of Last Things (1988) 25 The mud that oozes up from below, ankle-deep and treacherous.

b. transitive. to ooze one's way: (esp. of water or another liquid substance) to proceed by or as by oozing; to move gradually or imperceptibly. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1825 T. Hood Let. 11 May (1973) 64 A lazy spring,—oozing its way into grass & weeds.

1845 E. A. Poe Gold-bug in Tales 2 A scarcely perceptible creek, oozing its way through a wilderness of reeds and slime.

1897 O. Schreiner Trooper P. Halket i. 87 The steamlet..oozed its way silently on.

1970 T. Hughes Disaster in Crow (1972) 33 The word oozed its way.

1983 A. Humez & N. Humez Alpha to Omega 184 Since glass is really a fluid in its solidified state, window panes that have sat in their frames for fifty or a hundred years are noticeably thicker at the bottom, the glass having by infinitesimal degrees oozed its way downhill.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 9 The white meat will be more tender because all the fats and juices will have oozed their way into it.

II. Figurative uses.

3. To pass slowly, gradually, or imperceptibly, as if through pores or small openings.

a. intransitive. Of an immaterial quality (frequently with away). Also: (of the truth or factual information) to come gradually to light (with out).

ΚΠ

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. iii Upon my conscience,..your valour has oozed away with a vengeance!

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ii. 247 Gabriel felt his firmness oozing rapidly away.

1847 Port Phillip Herald (Melbourne) 29 July 2/5 It oozed out that the five stolen books specified in the indictment were of a rather heterogeneous nature.

1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry vi. 147 Rumours began to ooze out.

1912 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion (1916) 37 What he would have called my faith has been oozing away minute by minute whilst I've been sitting here.

1993 G. Roberts Highest Sci. (BNC) 85 For a second, it shared with him an existence of utter misery and unbearable agony... Hatred oozed from it.

1995 C. Bateman Divorcing Jack ii. 13 I took a gulp, closed my eyes. I felt the tension oozing away.

b. intransitive. Of air, light, sound, or gas.

ΚΠ

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 46 The wind oozing through the rat-holes of the old mansion.

1871 Echo 13 Dec. 1/4 The [sewer] gas which now oozes out into private houses.

1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds III. 198 No gleam of light..oozed from its hooded windows.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 64 It was undoubtedly from them [sc. the gloves] that the curious tarry odour was oozing.

1985 B. Neil As we Forgive v. 65 The sound of laughter and music oozed down the stairwell.

1992 Better Homes & Gardens: Building Ideas Spring 119/2 Since hot air rises, a poorly insulated attic will squander the heated air coming up—and let cold winter air ooze down.

4. intransitive. Of a person, vehicle, etc.: to make one's way slowly, surreptitiously, or lumberingly. Frequently with away, off, over.In later use, often depreciative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)]

creepc1175

lugc1400

to hold (also keep) foot withc1438

crawlc1460

lounge?a1513

slug1565

drawl1566

draggle1577

fodge1581

snail1582

laggerc1620

slagger1622

snail1628

flod1674

delay1690

to drag one’s slow length along1711

soss1711

loiter1728

trail1744

sidle1781

soodle1821

linger1826

ooze1847

slope1851

laggard1864

dawdle1872

tiddle1882

oozle1958

pootle1973

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiv. 129 Any such violent expression as ‘breaking up’, would have been quite inapplicable to that polite establishment. The young gentlemen oozed away, semi-annually, to their own homes; but they never broke up.

1929 D. G. Mackail How Amusing! 350 Whenever I came oozing along the street, he sort of edged away.

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xi. 232 Thought I must just ooze over and pass the time of day.

1956 N. Marsh Off with his Head (1957) viii. 176 I believe I oozed off before they got going.

1966 D. Francis Flying Finish ii. 19 He oozed on to a bar stool, his bulk drooping around him.

1971 Daily Tel. 15 Sept. 9/4 18ft 10in of gleaming black Daimler Limousine oozed up the drive and stopped outside.

1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 62/3 While busy..oozing into the managership of the New York Dolls, McLaren stumbled across CBGB.

2001 K. Walker & M. Schone Son of Grifter xi. 102 We'd oozed from one city to the next.

5. transitive. To give a strong impression of, to have the appearance of emitting.

ΚΠ

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Oct. 2/2 One can now hardly take up a daily paper that does not ooze Federal Home Rule at every page.

1925 E. J. P. Benn Confessions of Capitalist i. 21 Women over- or under-dressed, oozing money, and giving from their conversation no trace of education or of finer feeling.

1971 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 10/7 The way he oozes bonhomie over everything from day-old chicks to old-age pensioners I find grating.

1992 Chatelaine Sept. 12/1 Tom Hanks and centrefielder Madonna, who oozes sex appeal with every throw, make this game worth watching.

6. transitive. To say in an unctuous or sneering way.

ΚΠ

1962 Washington Daily News 27 July 44/1 He said he didn't feel the team had been lashed too severely by the press. On the contrary, he oozed, the press has been lenient, ‘kind to us’.

1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 81 ‘How do you know Elton..’ oozed a guy with swastikas on his sneakers.

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† oozev.²

Forms: 1700s ooze, 1700s ouze.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ooze n.¹

Etymology: < ooze n.¹ N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ūz) /uːz/.

Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To bury or embed in ooze; to apply ooze to (a field).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [verb (transitive)] > bury or embed in ooze (of trout)

ooze1729

1729 R. Savage Wanderer iv. 137 The trout, that deep, in winter, ooz'd remains, Up-springs.

1777 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 306 He directed one of them to ouze a small field..and to sow it with turnips.

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n.¹eOE

n.²eOE

n.³?c1475

n.⁴1718

v.¹a1387

v.²1729

单词	ooze
释义	oozen.¹ Brit. /uːz/, U.S. /uz/ Forms: α. Old English wase, Middle English waise, Middle English woise, Middle English woyse, Middle English woze, Middle English–1500s wose, Middle English–1600s (1800s English regional) woose, 1500s woase, 1500s woes. β. 1500s oous, 1500s–1600s oes, 1500s–1600s ooes, 1500s–1600s ose, 1500s–1600s ouse, 1500s–1600s owes, 1500s–1700s oase, 1500s–1700s ouze, 1500s–1700s owze, 1500s–1800s oose, 1500s– ooze, 1600s oas, 1600s oaz, 1600s–1700s owse, 1600s–1700s oze, 1600s–1800s oaze. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian wāse mud (probably reflected by West Frisian weaze), Old Icelandic veisa wetness, mud, marshy ground, Norwegian (Nynorsk) veis strip of moist (marshy) soil, veise moist (marshy) soil, Danish regional vejs oozy bottom, Swedish regional vesa, ves, veis (viscous and sticky) mud or sludge; further etymology uncertain and disputed.Earlier use of sense 1b is perhaps implied by the following example, although emendation to wara has been suggested (see J. Hoops ‘Werder, Rasen und Wiese’ in W. Dibelius et al. Anglica: Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie (1925) I. 70–1):OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 306 Sablonum : wasa, harenarum. The word is attested early in place names (chiefly in the names of streams), as Wase (a1170 in several copies of charters of mid 10th-cent. origin), Wose (1241), now Osse Ditch, Berkshire. With β forms compare Middle English ose , ouese in proper names. Rhymes in the Middle English period and the 16th cent. show open ō as the regular (southern) development of Old English ā . The modern pronunciation shows raising to the reflex of Middle English close ō , probably as a result of the influence of preceding w (which was subsequently assimilated), although association with the semantically close ooze n.² is also likely to have played a part. For evidence from the early modern period for pronunciations with the reflexes of both open ō and close ō see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §153, although the possibility of inexact rhymes cannot be ruled out. 1. a. Wet mud or slime; esp. that in the bed of a river, estuary, or sea. Also figurative.In later use this sense is often difficult to distinguish from ooze n.⁴ ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > deposited by river or sea oozeeOE slimea1000 slitch?a1475 sleech1587 sludge1649 slob1748 α. eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 28/1 Caenum, wase. eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 85 Cænum, wase. OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 71 Cenum i. luti uorago, uel lutum sub aquis fetidum, wase, uel fæn. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 179 He slepþ ine his zenne ase deþ zuyn ine þe wose. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. v. 656 Þe ryuer Nylus, is trowbly and draweþ moche slyme and wose. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiii. 229 Right as weodes wexen in wose and in donge. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 174 To castyn oute ȝoure wose of synne. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1742 (MED) They [sc. the ships] been nat ȝit I-setelid ne fixid in þe wose [rhyme glose]. a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 1953 + 1 They were in the grene wose. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. D j b I..in a slimy lake of mud all night lay hid in wose [rhyme disclose]. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xiii. v. 192 He walloweth and wrappeth himselfe first in fenne and wose. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 617 Woose, mud. Unfrequent. β. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aiv And lurked in a marrise all the nyght, Among the ooze.1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. ix. f. 188 They be full of mudde and ooes.1589 W. Wren in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 144 We sounded, and found 28. fadome water, black oase.1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27 The Ose or salt water mudde.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iii. 136 Till it bee fatted with the Owes, or sand of the Sea.1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ix. 29 Having buried him in the owze.1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 89 By the setling of the Ouse or filth brought down by the..Danube.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 141 Unweildily they wallow first in Ooze, Then in the shady Covert seek Repose. View more context for this quotation1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 287 With soft Owse and Sand mix'd.1763 W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 9 The bottom, which is sandy, mixed in many places with oase, is excellent for anchorage.1774 T. West Antiq. Furness p. xix Manuring their land with sea-sand, or rather ouze.1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 33 The sheet of black and fetid ooze that sends forth a surface-scum of brown tint and sickening odour.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 332 Fishing a manuscript out of the ooze of oblivion.1895 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 579/1 The darkness, heavy, clammy, and thick with the exhalations from the slimy ooze of the swamps, oppressed them.1939 Amer. Midland Naturalist 21 678 Eggs were..scattered over the decaying vegetation and ooze on the bottom.1981 S. J. Flower et al. Debrett's Etiquette & Mod. Manners vii. 169 Sandwich fillings should not drip ooze, and cakes should not be chunky, over-crumbly or squashy.1995 Earth Oct. 24/2 Despite the ooze sucking at his boots, geologist Brian Atwater bounds from spot to spot on the exposed river bottom. †b. As a count noun: a stretch or extent of mud; a mudbank; a marsh, a fen; a piece of soft boggy ground. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > mudbank > [noun] oozea1500 ooze bank1668 mudbanka1717 sleek1774 mud bar1813 mudflat1922 a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 11 (MED) I knowe noon so redy a ryvaile, As is the reedeclyff by this warine wose [rhyme suppose]. 1568 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 294 By reason of the evil air of the marshes and oozes there,..sick both of quartan and tertian agues. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1271/1 Seuen pirats were hanged at Wapping in the ouze beside London. a1598 in MS Map in Royal MS 18 D III. (Lord Burghley's Atlas) lf. 63 [The Sand and Ooze, now Kilnsey Flats, in the Humber Mouth, is denominated] a flat and woes. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer 215 If that bruised Bark which they forsook..upon some Ouze hath strook, Or on some shelve. 1744 C. Smith Antient & Present State County Down xix. 242 More than 40 [fish] came up..and were pursued into shallow Water by a Ship's Crew, who fired at them till they lodged them in the Ooze above White-house. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. iv. 472 There are thickets, intricacies, runlets, boggy oozes. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason x. 175 Quaggy land about the river's edge, Where 'mid the oozes and decaying sedge There wallowed ugly, nameless, dull-scaled things. 2. Oceanography. a. Soft fine mud on the floor of deep oceans, composed of the accumulated shells and skeletons of planktonic, chiefly microscopic, organisms; esp. (more fully foraminiferan ooze) calcareous matter consisting largely of the tests of foraminifera, similar to that which gave rise to the Cretaceous chalk deposits.globigerina, pteropod, radiolarian ooze: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > marine with organic remains ooze1858 Globigerina ooze1862 Globigerina mud1868 radiolarian ooze1876 sapropel1907 1858 J. Dayman Deep Sea Soundings 9 Between the 15th and 45th degrees of west longitude lies the deepest part of the ocean, the bottom of which is almost wholly composed of the same kind of soft mealy substance, which, for want of a better name, I have called oaze. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ II. i. 2 On the morning of the 16th we sounded in 2,575 fathoms with a bottom of reddish ooze containing many foraminifera. 1923 Sci. Monthly June 609 Investigators of the sea floor have found all over the world masses of ooze which are composed almost entirely of these shells. This foraminiferan ooze is the most widespread of modern calcareous formations. 1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. v. 215 When first brought up to the surface most of the pelagic deposits are in the form of a liquid mud, which is commonly spoken of as ooze. 1993 Nature 11 Mar. 142/2 There is an alternation between beds of unlaminated nanofossil ooze and subordinate quantities of laminated diatom ooze and/or partly bioturbated diatom ooze. b. As a count noun: a deposit or layer of such material on the ocean floor. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > other marine red mud1690 blue mud1773 ooze1876 1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 532 In the Globigerina, Radiolarian, and Diatom oozes we have found..only one or two shark's teeth. 1926 G. W. Tyrrell Princ. Petrol. xiv. 236 The oozes which cover great areas of the ocean floor are mainly calcareous and foraminiferal. 1971 Nature 3 Sept. 46/1 The ophiolites in those deep-sea troughs were overlain by Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous radiolarian and nannofossil oozes. 2000 Marine Georesources & Geotechnol. 18 251 Most of the sediments were siliceous oozes consisting of radiolarian or diatomaceous tests. Compounds ooze bank n. a mudbank in a tidal river, or by the shore. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > mudbank > [noun] oozea1500 ooze bank1668 mudbanka1717 sleek1774 mud bar1813 mudflat1922 1668 T. Allin Jrnl. 26 Dec. in Bodl. MS Tanner 297 f. 19^v We had a very hard heaving the Cable hanging upon an ouse banke. 1893 J. Watson Confessions Poacher 40 [We watched the ducks and geese] from behind an ooze bank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). oozen.² Brit. /uːz/, U.S. /uz/ Forms: α. Old English–Middle English wos, Middle English woyse, Middle English wus (in a late copy), Middle English–1500s woos, Middle English–1500s wose, 1500s–1800s woose, 1600s–1800s wooze; N.E.D. (1903) also records a form late Middle English woose. β. 1500s owse, 1500s 1700s owze, 1500s 1800s– ouse, 1500s–1600s ouze, 1500s–1600s owes, 1600s oaze, 1600s oze, 1600s (1800s– English regional) oose, 1600s– ooze. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Middle Low German wōs, wōse foam, scum, Old Swedish ōs, Old Danish ōs (Danish regional os) juice from a plant; further etymology uncertain and disputed. (Probably not related to Old Icelandic vás wetness, toil, fatigue from storm, etc.)β forms show assimilation of w to the following vowel. The 17th-cent. forms oaze , oze may result from association with ooze n.¹ (see discussion at that entry). 1. Juice, sap; liquid from a plant, fruit, etc. Now English regional (northern).In later use perhaps influenced by ooze n.⁴ ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap oozeeOE sapOE milkOE slime?c1225 juicec1290 humoura1398 opiuma1398 watera1425 sop1513 afion1542 suc1551 suck1560 ab1587 lymph1682 blood1690 fluid1705 humidities1725 succus1771 plant milk1896 α. eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxxvii. 328 Sele etan þa moran & þæt wos supan. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxxv. 116 Sume men..þæs woses synderlice brucað. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxxvi. 116 Wið earena sare, genim ðysse ylcan wyrte wos. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 53 Nim weȝbrædan and cnuca hiȝ and wring þarof þæt wos and drinc. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 186 Ase þe oyle op arist ine þe lompe alle þe oþre woses. c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 6 Tak þe grene bowes of an asche..of hony an eg-schelful..of þe woyse of þe pore leeke heued..& menge þam to-gedir. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 413 Þis diuinour..[with] þe wose of þe wede hire wengis anoyntis. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 8 (MED) Take blac mynte and wos of the rewe, of boþe y-lych moche and do hit in þe nostrell. c1600 (c1350) Alisaunder (Greaves) (1929) 712 Hee..laches..wortes..Hee wringes oute þe wet wus. β. 1821 Newcastle Swineherd's Proclam. in Coll. Songs Chiefly in Newcastle Dial. (1822) 6 Two whole fat beeves are barbecu'd, So go and cram your gorges there. Your mouths will water at the sight; The ouse your unshav'd chops run down.1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Oose, juice. 2. Tanning. a. The liquor of a tanning vat; an infusion or decoction of oak bark, sumac, or other tannin-yielding substance in which hides are steeped. Now chiefly historical.tan-ooze: see tan n.¹ and adj. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > leather-making materials > [noun] > tannin > tanning solutions sumac?a1350 bark-waterc1440 oozea1450 owser1704 sour1756 souring1777 tan-pickle1820 gambier1853 kassu1862 tan-liquor1882 tan-ooze1901 α. a1450 Dis. Women (Sloane) in B. Rowland Medieval Woman's Guide to Health (1981) 84 (MED) Menge turmentill, moleyne..and sethe all these in tanners wose. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. iv. 459 If any Tanner..have tanned any rotten Hides, or wrought them negligently in the Wose, or have not renewed the Wose so oft as need was. 1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 22 Nor shall suffer the Hides..to lye in the Woozes any lesse tyme than Twelve Moneths at the leaste. 1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. ix. 63 You may use the red astringent wine, or tanners woose. 1726 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 4 Mar. 4 A large Tann-yard..furnished with Pits and Vats..full of Wooze. 1800 Specif. Patent 2409 2 The part for raising and conveying the woose. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 382/2 By some the weak and exhausted oozes or woozes from the pits are strengthened up by renewed leaching. β. 1575 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 30 The owse of Ashen barke dronke, is an extreme purgacion... All the..connyng of a Tanner concistethe in the skillfull making of his owes.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1600) 42 Also some doe giue them of Tanners ouse to drinke.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 546 The filth of Tanners oose.1656 Connecticut Rec. I. 286 Nor shall [any person] put any leather into any hott or warme oozes w[ha]tsoever.1692 O. Walker Greek & Rom. Hist. 25 With tanners Oaze.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Scouring-long-sought Take a Quart of Tanner's Owze.1779 Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) 68 127 When you find your hides sufficiently raised, put them directly into the ooze, and go on with the tanning as in the old way.1806 B. Hawkins Let. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 430 The handler is a vat of ooze to colour the leather.1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 216 Vats..two-thirds filled with a weak ooze or infusion of oak-bark.1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator v. 311 An extract of bark, technically called ‘ooze’.1912 H. S. Jones Compan. Rom. Hist. v. 331 At Pompeii a tannery has been discovered... In..part of the building was the vat in which the ooze was prepared from the bark of trees, gall nuts &c.1999 Early Amer. Homes (Nexis) 1 Apr. 54 The ooze was made from oak bark—although hemlock and chestnut could also serve, and even sumac leaves and nut galls. b. = ooze leather n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather finished in specific way red leather1418 black work1587 frieze-leather1594 shagreen1677 chagrin1678 wax-leather1711 patent leather1797 satin leather1802 japanned leather1851 Peau d'Espagne1855 grain-leather1858 suede1878 pebble leather1880 suede leather1882 ooze leather1888 blacking leather1895 grain1895 patent1902 ooze1916 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 July 14/1 (advt.) Ladies' 8-Inch High Laced White Ivory Ooze Boot, blind eyelets, small perforations, full Louis heel. 1922 M. B. Houston Witch Man vi. 78 A ‘gift’ volume of Shakespeare, bound in dark blue ooze. Compounds ooze calf n. = ooze leather n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from calf-skin calf-skin1704 calf1716 calf-leather1726 box calf1893 ooze calf1894 veal calf1895 1894 Daily News 22 June 6/4 From Montreal comes a book in buck-skin, tanned like ooze-calf. 1900 Atlantic Monthly Dec. b017 Ooze calf, $6.00 Limited edition, on large handmade paper. 1972 N. H. Strause Collector's Decabiblon 3 Elbert Hubbard's imitation Kelmscott bound in ooze calf. ooze leather n. calfskin through which dye has been forced by mechanical means, used for the uppers of boots and shoes, and in bookbinding. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather finished in specific way red leather1418 black work1587 frieze-leather1594 shagreen1677 chagrin1678 wax-leather1711 patent leather1797 satin leather1802 japanned leather1851 Peau d'Espagne1855 grain-leather1858 suede1878 pebble leather1880 suede leather1882 ooze leather1888 blacking leather1895 grain1895 patent1902 ooze1916 1888 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. 8/7 (advt.) Shoe department... Special attention is directed to our novelties in ladies' ooze leather, Oxford ties, [etc.]. 1928 Publishers' Weekly 9 June 2348 In four styles of binding..ooze leather, two colors, green or brown, $2·50. 1967 Jrnl. Inter-Amer. Stud. 9 454 The dress uniform consisted of an ooze leather jacket and vest embroidered and trimmed with silver galloon. 1982 M. T. Roberts & D. Etherington Bookbinding & Conserv. Bks. 181/1 Today, ooze leather is a vegetable- or chrome-tanned skin of bovine origin, with a very soft, glovelike feel and a natural grain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † oozen.³ Forms: α. late Middle English wase, late Middle English wayse, 1600s woose. β. 1500s ouse, 1600s oase, 1600s oze, 1700s ouze, 1700s–1800s ooze. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. wāse n. regards this as probably the same word as wase n., taking the sense in Middle English as probably ‘clump of seaweed’ and hence linked with the more general sense ‘bundle, bunch’ (compare also the sense ‘some kind of fish trap, probably made of bundled straw, reeds, etc., or perhaps bunched seaweed’ in Middle Eng. Dict. s.v.); however, in later use the sense is clearly simply ‘seaweed’, which probably argues against this explanation. Perhaps a sense development of ooze n.¹, although the semantic development is difficult to account for. Perhaps compare ware n.¹, ore n.⁵Like ooze n.¹, showing assimilation of w and raising of the vowel in the early modern period. N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ūz) /uːz/. Obsolete. 1. Seaweed.Quot. 1833 at β. may belong at ooze n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] sea-frothc1440 wrekec1440 ooze?c1475 wreck1499 wrack1513 moss1543 reek1545 wrake1547 sea-wrack1551 seaweed1577 varec1676 wreck-weed1821 Algal alliance1846 wreck-ware1865 society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > hose-pipe ooze?c1475 hose1495 hose-pipe1835 hosebag1868 α. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 136 A Wayse [1483 BL Add. 89074, a Wase], alga, fasciculus. 1689 H. Pitman Relation Great Sufferings 23 [Turtles] feed on Woose or Sea Grass that grows out of the rocks. β. 1555 R. Eden tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 343 Weedes of the sea cauled reites or ouse.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 369 Some heale their Roofes with fearn or reeds, or rushes, And some with hides, with oase, with boughs, & bushes.1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. 1122 Great qauntitie of Oze, that growes vpon the Rockes of the Sea.1737 H. Baker Medulla Poetarum Romanorum I. 386 The Stream produc'd nor shiny Ooze, nor Weeds, Nor miry Rushes, nor the spiky Reeds.1803 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) III. xxxiv. 559 Near the coast great quantities of sea-weed, or ooze, are collected.1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) x. 120 With pannier-loads of sea ooze..to manure their little fields. 2. Marsh vegetation. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > peat-moss ooze1665 sphagnum1741 bog moss1785 peat moss1848 moss peat1875 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 245 Which Fuel was no other, than the muddy Oze growing in the Marishes of Holland, hardned by the Sun, and cut out into Turf. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). oozen.⁴ Brit. /uːz/, U.S. /uz/ Forms: 1700s ouze, 1800s– ooze. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ooze v.¹ Etymology: < ooze v.¹ Compare earlier ooze n.², and also ooze n.¹ The action or fact of oozing; exudation. Also: something that oozes; a sluggish flow. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > types of liquid generally > liquid that has oozed through ooze1718 ullage1824 the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > [noun] oozinga1398 syingc1440 sweating1545 exudation1617 ooze1718 sudoresis1834 exuding1849 exudence1874 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > exuding exudation1617 ooze1718 seepage1825 sudoresis1834 exuding1849 exudence1874 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > through any medium or space > passing through a porous medium sipec888 oozinga1398 siping1503 sying1530 filtering1576 filtration1602 percolation1613 transudation1617 filtrature1670 ooze1718 transuding1756 sap1794 seepage1825 sipage1825 percolating1861 soakage1867 bleeding1926 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > exuding > that which sweata1387 oozinga1398 exudation1626 ooze1718 exudate1876 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 494 From his first fountain & beginning ouze, Down to the sea each brook & torrent flows. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 360 An outlet for the escape of the fluid, which trickles down in a perpetual ooze. 1860 W. D. O'Connor Harrington 23 A dull ooze of blood..had spread its stain over the whole countenance. 1889 Science 15 Feb. 131/1 Small oozes of water issuing from the base of these slopes. 1938 H. Spring My Son, my Son! xxxiv. 590 The villagers stood..gazing at the naked legs and the ooze of blood. 1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 105/3 The paramedics rescue a man trapped in the ooze of a gushing oil well. 1993 Poets & Writers Sept. 39/1 Even with about six hundred members, the colony's cash flow is more of an ooze. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). oozev.¹ Brit. /uːz/, U.S. /uz/ Forms: α. Middle English wosy, Middle English–1500s woose, Middle English–1500s wose, Middle English–1600s wooze. β. late Middle English ose, 1500s oyse, 1600s–1700s ouse, 1600s–1700s ouze, 1700s– ooze. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ooze n.² Etymology: < ooze n.² Compare earlier weese v.No evidence has been found for the Old English (Northumbrian) wōsan (claimed as a variant of wēsan weese v.) listed in J. R. Clark Hall Conc. Anglo-Saxon Dict. (ed. 3, 1931). I. Senses relating to moisture or liquid. 1. a. transitive. To emit or give out (liquid or moisture) slowly or gradually. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > of something confined > in the form of vapour oozea1387 perspire1646 α. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 63 Salt veynes mulleþ [L. liquentibus; ?a1475 anon. tr. meltenge] and woseth oute humours, and moysture. β. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2125 A Pole of Willow..bent into a bow, will ouse its Sap freely.1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxviii. 535 Ulcers that lye deep, and ouze out their Matter thro'..winding Passages.1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 105 From the surface [of the plant] oozes out a gum in round blebs.1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 601 A dry furfuraceous or scaly skin, often oozing a calcareous material.1845 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 337 His doe-skin boots were oozing out water.1899 A. H. Adams Maoriland 115 The sore Of festering cities, oozing heavy smoke.1957 H. G. Lamond Dingo viii. 82 Every creek was running; every mickery in the hills was oozing water.1977 V. Glendinning Elizabeth Bowen ii. 26 He took them out and bought them great hot doughnuts oozing jam.1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) iii. 64 He oozed oniony-smelling sweat from powder treatments. b. intransitive. Of a substance or object: to exude moisture; to be wet with (also †of) oozing moisture. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > exude [verb (intransitive)] sweatc893 sipec1000 oozea1398 α. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 251^v Þe tree þat sweteþ and woseþ Thus hatte libanus. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 36 (MED) Þat watir is good for swellynge of a mannys eyne..and for eyne þat ben wosynge. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 71 (MED) Þe ius of byteyne..ys goud for eyȝen þat beþ wosyng and wateryng of humores. β. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxv The fete lockes..woll swell in wynter tyme and oyse of water.1778 H. Brooke Conrade in Coll. Plays & Poems IV. 407 He the deadly wound Ere long discover'd; for it still ooz'd crimson.1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 153 This passion..made..His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat.1864 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 150 He..then began to bloat himself, and ooze All over with the fat affectionate smile That makes the widow lean.1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out v The wall behind him oozed with damp, which collected into drops and slid down.a1948 W. Everson Coll. Poems (1997) I. 73 All over my body the pores are oozing; On the soles of my feet the dead skin sloughs.1993 J. Gallas Flying Carpets over Filbert St. 78 At six o'clock the sun oozed and spat like a fried egg. 2. a. intransitive. Of moisture: to pass slowly or in small quantities through the pores of a body or through small openings or interstices; to exude, to seep. Also with adverbs of motion, as out, up. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit [verb (transitive)] > slowly or gradually oozea1398 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > percolation > pass through by percolation [verb (intransitive)] oozea1398 soakc1440 filter1576 percolate1684 infiltrate1828 leach1883 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > exude syec893 sickerc897 weesec1000 bleedc1305 oozea1398 sweata1425 weeslea1555 sew1565 exude1574 outstreata1631 exudate1646 dew1658 suppurate1693 strain1707 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > through > through a porous medium sipec1000 oozea1398 soakc1440 filter1576 strain1590 transude1664 percolate1684 transudate1684 filtrate1686 seep1790 leach1883 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in small quantity > slowly or through pore-like openings weesec1000 oozea1398 weeslea1555 run1786 seep1790 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > exude sweatc893 weep1387 oozea1398 evaporate1799 swelter1834 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > emit by exudation sweat?c1225 oozea1398 distilc1400 constilc1430 degout?1504 stilla1530 spew1570 filter1582 deplore1601 evaporate1611 weep1634 collachrymate1657 elacrymate1657 exudate1671 exude17.. exstill1819 α. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. ii. 650 Þanne þe smale ynner veynes of þe erþe ben ybroke, and þe watir woseþ oute. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 131 Yit weepeth shee, and from her tree warme droppes doo softly woose. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 900 Lest the rain-water..should soak and wooze into their Hives. β. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ix. 116 To thyn hond wol sprynge or springes ose [L. scatere].a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 181 Tie it very close..that nothing may ouse out.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 118 A wat'rish Humour swell'd and ooz'd agen. View more context for this quotation1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 146 I saw the Water ooze in at several Crannies.1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. i. 121 The Solids..will suffer this thin and acrid Serum to ouze thro' their Substances.1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 355 The spring oozes out of a rock.1822 J. Imison Elem. Sci. & Art I. 107 The water oozed through the gold, and stood like dew upon the surface.1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) i. §18 12 When a crack takes place in ice, the water oozes up.1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 446 In this way a considerable amount of water was permitted to ooze..out and away.1904 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 36 571 The water oozes from the black, spongy bog.1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags (1943) iii. 170 From the fishy freight..water oozed slowly on to the platform.1987 P. Auster Country of Last Things (1988) 25 The mud that oozes up from below, ankle-deep and treacherous. b. transitive. to ooze one's way: (esp. of water or another liquid substance) to proceed by or as by oozing; to move gradually or imperceptibly. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1825 T. Hood Let. 11 May (1973) 64 A lazy spring,—oozing its way into grass & weeds. 1845 E. A. Poe Gold-bug in Tales 2 A scarcely perceptible creek, oozing its way through a wilderness of reeds and slime. 1897 O. Schreiner Trooper P. Halket i. 87 The steamlet..oozed its way silently on. 1970 T. Hughes Disaster in Crow (1972) 33 The word oozed its way. 1983 A. Humez & N. Humez Alpha to Omega 184 Since glass is really a fluid in its solidified state, window panes that have sat in their frames for fifty or a hundred years are noticeably thicker at the bottom, the glass having by infinitesimal degrees oozed its way downhill. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 9 The white meat will be more tender because all the fats and juices will have oozed their way into it. II. Figurative uses. 3. To pass slowly, gradually, or imperceptibly, as if through pores or small openings. a. intransitive. Of an immaterial quality (frequently with away). Also: (of the truth or factual information) to come gradually to light (with out). ΚΠ 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. iii Upon my conscience,..your valour has oozed away with a vengeance! 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ii. 247 Gabriel felt his firmness oozing rapidly away. 1847 Port Phillip Herald (Melbourne) 29 July 2/5 It oozed out that the five stolen books specified in the indictment were of a rather heterogeneous nature. 1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry vi. 147 Rumours began to ooze out. 1912 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion (1916) 37 What he would have called my faith has been oozing away minute by minute whilst I've been sitting here. 1993 G. Roberts Highest Sci. (BNC) 85 For a second, it shared with him an existence of utter misery and unbearable agony... Hatred oozed from it. 1995 C. Bateman Divorcing Jack ii. 13 I took a gulp, closed my eyes. I felt the tension oozing away. b. intransitive. Of air, light, sound, or gas. ΚΠ 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 46 The wind oozing through the rat-holes of the old mansion. 1871 Echo 13 Dec. 1/4 The [sewer] gas which now oozes out into private houses. 1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds III. 198 No gleam of light..oozed from its hooded windows. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 64 It was undoubtedly from them [sc. the gloves] that the curious tarry odour was oozing. 1985 B. Neil As we Forgive v. 65 The sound of laughter and music oozed down the stairwell. 1992 Better Homes & Gardens: Building Ideas Spring 119/2 Since hot air rises, a poorly insulated attic will squander the heated air coming up—and let cold winter air ooze down. 4. intransitive. Of a person, vehicle, etc.: to make one's way slowly, surreptitiously, or lumberingly. Frequently with away, off, over.In later use, often depreciative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] creepc1175 lugc1400 to hold (also keep) foot withc1438 crawlc1460 lounge?a1513 slug1565 drawl1566 draggle1577 fodge1581 snail1582 laggerc1620 slagger1622 snail1628 flod1674 delay1690 to drag one’s slow length along1711 soss1711 loiter1728 trail1744 sidle1781 soodle1821 linger1826 ooze1847 slope1851 laggard1864 dawdle1872 tiddle1882 oozle1958 pootle1973 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiv. 129 Any such violent expression as ‘breaking up’, would have been quite inapplicable to that polite establishment. The young gentlemen oozed away, semi-annually, to their own homes; but they never broke up. 1929 D. G. Mackail How Amusing! 350 Whenever I came oozing along the street, he sort of edged away. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xi. 232 Thought I must just ooze over and pass the time of day. 1956 N. Marsh Off with his Head (1957) viii. 176 I believe I oozed off before they got going. 1966 D. Francis Flying Finish ii. 19 He oozed on to a bar stool, his bulk drooping around him. 1971 Daily Tel. 15 Sept. 9/4 18ft 10in of gleaming black Daimler Limousine oozed up the drive and stopped outside. 1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 62/3 While busy..oozing into the managership of the New York Dolls, McLaren stumbled across CBGB. 2001 K. Walker & M. Schone Son of Grifter xi. 102 We'd oozed from one city to the next. 5. transitive. To give a strong impression of, to have the appearance of emitting. ΚΠ 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Oct. 2/2 One can now hardly take up a daily paper that does not ooze Federal Home Rule at every page. 1925 E. J. P. Benn Confessions of Capitalist i. 21 Women over- or under-dressed, oozing money, and giving from their conversation no trace of education or of finer feeling. 1971 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 10/7 The way he oozes bonhomie over everything from day-old chicks to old-age pensioners I find grating. 1992 Chatelaine Sept. 12/1 Tom Hanks and centrefielder Madonna, who oozes sex appeal with every throw, make this game worth watching. 6. transitive. To say in an unctuous or sneering way. ΚΠ 1962 Washington Daily News 27 July 44/1 He said he didn't feel the team had been lashed too severely by the press. On the contrary, he oozed, the press has been lenient, ‘kind to us’. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 81 ‘How do you know Elton..’ oozed a guy with swastikas on his sneakers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † oozev.² Forms: 1700s ooze, 1700s ouze. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ooze n.¹ Etymology: < ooze n.¹ N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ūz) /uːz/. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To bury or embed in ooze; to apply ooze to (a field). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [verb (transitive)] > bury or embed in ooze (of trout) ooze1729 1729 R. Savage Wanderer iv. 137 The trout, that deep, in winter, ooz'd remains, Up-springs. 1777 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 306 He directed one of them to ouze a small field..and to sow it with turnips. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.¹eOEn.²eOEn.³?c1475n.⁴1718v.¹a1387v.²1729
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