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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pore, n.2 (e.m.E. (1543) pore ‘the callus exuded at the site of the fracture of a broken bone’, med. L. (Eng.) porus (sarcoides) (c 1400), from the Gk.) —c1515 Asl. MS. I 314/15.
And als for wengeans the sennoun of the secret pore is brokin quhar as thai bleid thare
