Ooze
Ooze , noun
[Old English wose, Anglo-Saxon wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w{not transcribed}s juice, ooze, Icelandic vās wetness, Old High German waso turf, sod, German wasen.]
1.
Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
My son i' the ooze is bedded.
2.
Soft flow; spring. — Prior
3.
The liquor of a tan vat.
4.
(Oceanography) A soft deposit covering large areas of the ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera, Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter being dissolved by the large percentage of carbon dioxide in the water at these depths.
Ooze , intransitive verb
[Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.]
1.
To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass.
2.
Figuratively: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
Ooze , transitive verb
To cause to ooze. — Alex. Smith