oozing

English

Verb

oozing

  1. present participle of ooze

Noun

oozing (plural oozings)

  1. Something that oozes; a seepage.
    • 1855, Henry Stephens, John Stuart Skinner, The book of the farm (page 320)
      A 12-acre field of good, deep land on the farm of Frenchlaw, in Berwickshire, was rendered swampy by springs and oozings of water from the surrounding rising ground being retained upon the clay subsoil.
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