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ichor
Part of speech: NounA thin watery humor like whey flowing from an ulcer.
Usage examples "ichor":- For nearly six months he was detained at Bambarre from ulcers in the feet, which discharged bloody ichor as soon as he set them on the ground. - "How I Found Livingstone", Sir Henry M. Stanley.
- 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.
- The variegated windows cast on us their red and green lights, like drops of blood and ichor; requiems for the dead resound through the aisles; under our feet are gravestones and decay; in harmony with the colossal pillars, the soul soars aloft, painfully tearing itself away from the body, which sinks to the ground like a cast- off garment. - "The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine", Heinrich Heine.