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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ooze \Ooze\, noun [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w?s juice, ooze, Icel. v[=a]s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. 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.'' --Shak.
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 lage percentage of carbon dioxide in the water at these depths. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ooze \Ooze\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Oozed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Oozing}.] [Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See {Ooze}, noun]
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. --Thomson.
2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ooze \Ooze\, verb (used with an object) To cause to ooze. --Alex. Smith.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ooze
noun
1: any thick messy substance [syn: {sludge}, {slime}, {goo}, {gook}, {guck}, {gunk}, {muck}]
2: the process of seeping [syn: {seepage}, {oozing}]
verb
1: pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings [syn: {seep}]
2: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: {exude}, {exudate}, {transude}, {ooze out}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "ooze": bleed, clay, discharge, drain, drip, effuse, effusion, emit, excrete, excretion, exfiltrate, exfiltration, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, exude, filter, filtering, filtrate, filtration, give off, glop, goo, goop, gumbo, gunk, leach, leaching, leak, lixiviate, lixiviation, mire, muck, mud, oozing, percolate, percolating, percolation, reek, scum, secrete, sediment, seep, seepage, sew, silt, slab, slime, slip, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, splosh, squash, strain, straining, sweat, swill, transpire, transudation, transude, trickle, weep, weeping
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
OOZE Object oriented extension of Z. "Object Orientation in Z", S. Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992.
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