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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ichor has 2 senses
- ichor(n = noun.substance) Array - (Greek mythology) the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods; Array is a kind of fluid
- ichor(n = noun.body) festering, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration - a fluid product of inflammation; Array is a kind of bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance
has particulars: gleet
Derived form adjective ichorous1
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.
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 corpuscleROGET THESAURUS
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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.
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