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Definition of Poring
1. pore [v] - See also: pore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poring
Literary usage of Poring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"I remember observing him many times in the Advocates' Library poring over maps
and gazetteers with care and anxiety; and the following is one of many ..."
2. The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal by Francis Asbury (1821)
"When a child, I thought it strange my mother should stand by a large window poring
over a book for hours together. From my childhood I may say, ..."
3. Biographia juridica. A biographical dictionary of the judges of England from by Edward Foss (1870)
"poring the absences also of the next chancellor, John de Langton, from March 4
to 30,1297, and from February 20 to June 16, 1299, he held the Seal and ..."
4. A New and General Biographical Dictionary;: Containing an Historical and (1762)
"... poring upon barbarous •ks and wild words, and in making five Gothic or Teu-
ic lexicons, yet it did not any ways ..."
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