Ichor

Definition of ichor:

part of speech: noun

A watery humor.

part of speech: adjective

ICHOROUS.

part of speech: noun

( myth.) The ethereal juice in the veins of the gods: a watery humor: colorless matter from an ulcer.

Usage examples for ichor:

• They might be extended with still greater quotation, and if something more yet were needed the essay on Milton which made Macaulay's reputation might be employed as a vessel to catch the overrunnings of the precious ichor "Imaginary Interviews", W. D. Howells.

• Some new ichor stirred in Maseden's veins, firing his spirit to emprise. "His Unknown Wife", Louis Tracy.

• However, afterwards being wounded with an arrow, and feeling much pain, he turned to those about him, and told them, " This, my friends, is real flowing blood, not Ichor 'Such as immortal gods are wont to shed. "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.