poring

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English

Verb

poring

  1. present participle of pore

Noun

poring (plural porings)

  1. The act of one who pores.
    • 1833, Oliver Moore, The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune:
      During my porings over a volume of the former for 1794, I fell upon a paragraph which caused such a sudden perturbation in my whole appearance, as to excite the curiosity of the surgeon []

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