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poring
(encz) | poring,zírání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Poring
(gcide) | 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.
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The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same
thing. --Dryden.
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poring
(encz) | poring,zírání n: Zdeněk Brož |
poring over
(encz) | poring over, n: |
vaporing
(encz) | vaporing,vypařování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Encorporing
(gcide) | Encorporing \En*cor"po*ring\, n. [Pref. en- + L. corpus body.]
Incorporation. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Vaporing
(gcide) | Vapor \Va"por\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vapored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Vaporing.] [From Vapor, n.: cf. L. vaporare.] [Written
also vapour.]
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1. To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance,
whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to
evaporate.
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2. To emit vapor or fumes. [R.]
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Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters.
--Bacon.
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3. To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
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Poets used to vapor much after this manner.
--Milton.
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We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten
them. --Walpole.
[1913 Webster]Vaporing \Va"por*ing\, a.
Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.
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Vaporingly
(gcide) | Vaporing \Va"por*ing\, a.
Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.
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poring over
(wn) | poring over
n 1: reading carefully with intent to remember [syn: perusal,
perusing, poring over, studying] |
vaporing
(wn) | vaporing
n 1: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his
fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
[syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing,
line-shooting, gasconade] |
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