OOZE

ooze

Noun

  1. Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
  2. Secretion, humour.
  3. A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
  2. A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
  3. The liquor of a tanning vat.

Verb

  1. To be secreted or slowly leak.
  2. To give off a sense of (something).


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