ooze

Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.

Secretion, humour.

Juice, sap.

To be secreted or slowly leak.

I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.

She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out. “Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!” Miss Maudie’s face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.

To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.

"Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.

Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

my son i' th' ooze is bedded.

It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.

A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.

A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.