- to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
- to gaze earnestly or steadily: to pore over a painting.
- to meditate or ponder intently (usually followed by over, on, or upon): He pored over the strange events of the preceding evening.
- a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- a minute interstice, as in a rock.
- to make a close intent examination or study (of a book, map, etc)
- to think deeply (about)
- to look earnestly or intently (at); gaze fixedly (upon)
- any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
- any small aperture, esp that of a stoma through which water vapour and gases pass
- any other small hole, such as a space in a rock, soil, etc
