Ichor
Definition of ichor:
part of speech: noun
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:
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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.