pore

A tiny opening in the skin.

I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.

By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

the pores of a rock.

Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.

To study meticulously; to go over again and again.

Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.

To meditate or reflect in a steady way.