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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 102 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PORE , a small opening or orifice, particularly used of the openings of the ducts of the sweat-glands in the skin or of the stomata in the epidermis of See also:

plants or those through which the See also:pollen or See also:seed are discharged from anthers or seed capsules. The word is an See also:adaptation through the See also:French from See also:Lat. See also:porus, Gr. abpos, passage. In the sense of to look closely at, to read with persistent or See also:close See also:attention, " pore " is of obscure origin. It would seem to be connected with " peer," to look closely into, and would point to an O. Eng. pyrian or pyrian. There is no similar word in Old French.

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