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Ichor

Ichor \I"chor\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ichw`r: cf. F. ichor.]

  1. (Class. Myth.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

  2. A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ichor

1630s, from Greek ikhor, of unknown origin, possibly from a non-Indo-European language. The fluid that serves for blood in the veins of the gods. Related: Ichorous.

Wiktionary
ichor

n. 1 the liquid that in Greek mythology was said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods 2 (context poetic English) any bloodlike fluid 3 a watery, fetid discharge from a sore 4 yellow bile

WordNet
ichor
  1. n. (Greek mythology) the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods

  2. a fluid product of inflammation [syn: pus, purulence, suppuration, sanies, festering]

Wikipedia
Ichor

In Greek mythology, Ichor ( or ; ) is the ethereal golden fluid that is the blood of the gods and/or immortals.

Ichor (album)

Ichor is The Black League's first full-length album, released in 2000 by Spinefarm Records. A music video was made of the song "Winter Winds Sing". The limited 2LP version of Ichor includes two bonus tracks: "The Everlasting Pt. III" and "Pain Without A Name" of which the former was later re-recorded for the Doomsday Sun EP.

Usage examples of "ichor".

A dream, and the promise of our long-ago celestial begetters, who had not forgotten the distant generations of their children, in whose red blood a thin thread of ichor ran still.

Worlag ichor had infected the wound, and the biceps were twice the size they should be.

Once again Laris and Dom were bathed in the ichor stain of a San Francisco sunset, but this time it seemed not the red of new passion or heart blood that covered them.

Enough light bounced off its scales, made shinier by patches of decay and the dried ichor of its blood, that the pallet with Boba Fett on it could be seen several meters away.

One scratch from, ah, from the Ichor of Wree and the goddess will take you!

She saw not a real flesh-and-blood person but a translucent apparition surrounded by dark swirling blotches of black ichor.

The growths oozed raw and red in daylight, but at night the ichor glowed like the photophores of deepwater fish.

The abominable beast that I had slain four, years ago was where I had left it, undecomposed, silent in its pool of noxious ichor.

Nothing remained of Chaldee but a rapidly congealing ichor from which the hilt of Demonfang protruded.

She could see now that the duchan had swallowed his features whole, and his entire face was covered in a shimmering, quivering blanket of the ichor.

Gorlen a fresh phib skin, still limp and wet with ichor, smelling far fishier than the dried hides hanging throughout the apartment.

Thick gray ichor oozed from the stump of its wrist, but the monster seemed unfazed and continued to pull itself onto the boat with its other hand.

Occasionally, after one of his darker dreams, he would feel a carryover of guilt or depravity flowing like ichor through dull veins, but even that would soon be gone.

The phone was dead Ichor dripped from the little cages that held the ear and mouth imps. The front mesh on both cages was pushed in.

He did his best to scorn the warninguntil the day when his sole surviving escort, Drakh, was set on by an unknown gang and attacked with weapons such as would never have been permitted in Ntah: prongs steeped in the ichor from a rotting carcass, warranted to poison the slightest cut even though it was not deep enough to let out life.