ichor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: i=chor

CIDE DICTIONARY

ichor, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ichw`r: cf. F. ichor.].

•  An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.  [1913 Webster]
•  A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ichor, n.
1 (in Greek mythology) fluid flowing like blood in the veins of the gods.
2 poet. bloodlike fluid.
3 hist. a watery fetid discharge from a wound etc.

Derivative

ichorous adj.

Etymology

Gk ikhor

DEVIL DICTIONARY

ichor

n. A fluid that serves the gods and goddesses in place of blood.

Fair Venus, speared by Diomed,
Restrained the raging chief and said:
"Behold, rash mortal, whom you've bled --
Your soul's stained white with ichorshed!"
Mary Doke

THESAURUS

ichor

Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, chyle, circulation, clinical dextran, colostrum, dextran, discharge, erythrocyte, festering, gleet, globulin, gore, grume, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, isoantibody, lachryma, lactation, leukocyte, leukorrhea, lifeblood, lymph, matter, mattering, milk, mucor, mucus, neutrophil, opsonin, peccant humor, phagocyte, phlegm, plasma, plasma substitute, purulence, pus, rankling, red corpuscle, rheum, running, saliva, sanies, serous fluid, serum, snot, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, type O, urine, venous blood, white corpuscle

ROGET THESAURUS

ichor

Fluidity

N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.