Hypertext Webster Gateway: "poring"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same
thing. --Dryden.
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