Poring

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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           The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same
           thing.                                   --Dryden.
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