Por"ous (?), a. [Cf. F. poreux. See Pore, n.]

Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.

"The veins of porous earth."

Milton.

 

© Webster 1913.

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