O'OLITE, noun [Gr. an egg, and stone, from its resemblance to the roes of fish.]
Egg-stone, a variety of concreted carbonate of lime; oviform limestone.
OOZE, verb intransitive ooz. [The origin of this word is not easily ascertained. Heb. See Issue.]
To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance, or through small openings. Water oozes from the earth and through a filter.
The latent rill, scaree oozing through the grass.
OOZE, noun
1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently or easily yield to pressure.
2. Soft flow; spring.
3. The liquor of a tan-vat.
OOZ'ING, participle present tense Flowing gently; percolating.
OOZ'Y, adjective Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as the oozy bed of a river.