pore

noun

1. A tiny opening in the skin.

   “I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.”

2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

   “the pores of a rock.”

   “Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.”

   “After reading White’s vitriolic language, The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from every pore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.””

verb

1. To study meticulously; to go over again and again.

   “Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.”

2. To meditate or reflect in a steady way.