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ichor|ˈaɪkə(r), ˈɪkə(r), -ɔː|
[a. Gr. ἰχώρ (in senses below). Cf. F. ichor (16th c. in Paré).]
1. Gr. Myth. The ethereal fluid supposed to flow like blood in the veins of the gods.
1676Hobbes Iliad (1677) 68 From the wound out sprang the blood divine; Not such as men have in their veins, but ichor [rime liquor]. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 92 Amus'd he reads, and then returns the bills Sign'd with that Ichor which from Gods distills. 1822Byron Vis. Judgm. xxv, Of course his perspiration was but ichor, Or some such other spiritual liquor. 1855Kingsley Heroes ii. v. (1856) 146 To live ever youthful like the Gods, who have ichor in their veins.
2. transf. and fig. Blood; a fluid, real or imaginary, likened to the blood of animals. † Formerly, the serum of the blood. Now chiefly poet.
1638Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. iii. iii. (ed. 5) 34 Ichores and those serious matters being thickned become flegme. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 343 The dog stained his mouth with the ichor of the fish. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 295/1 The azure ichor of this élite of the earth. 1880Huxley Crayfish i. 31 The older Naturalists thought that the crayfish was devoid of blood, and had merely a sort of ichor in place of it. 1895W. Watson Hymn to Sea, Through the veins of the Earth, riots the ichor of spring. 1930Blunden Poems 128 Meanwhile the woods with ichor in their limbs Wake in a dance of slow religious love. 1960S. Plath Colossus (1967) 77 The ichor of the spring Proceeds clear as it ever did From the broken throat, the marshy lip. 1970R. P. Warren Incarnations 15 The great-gashed navel's cup Pours forth the ichor that had filled it up.
3. Path. A watery acrid discharge issuing from certain wounds and sores.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋243 The Fontanel by reason of the more powerful hurt of digestion then is accustomed doth weep forth an Ichor. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 51 A Balsamick Decoction..corrects acrid Ichor. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. li. (1738) 200 There is an Ichor and viscid Matter perpetually flowing from the Tendons. 1897Allbutt Syst. Med. III. 158 Occasionally they [chalk stones] push through the cutaneous covering and form indolent ulcers..and discharge a purulent ichor.
4. Geol. A fluid or ‘emanation’ from a magma which is held to cause granitization of rock.
1926J. J. Sederholm in Bull. de la Comm. Géol. de Finlande XII. lxxvii. 89 The writer proposes to introduce, instead of the word granitic juices, the term granitic ichor, preliminarily with no more strictly defined signification than that possessed by the word juice. It will soon be possible..to give to the term a stricter definition. 1934N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. XV. 354 The minerals described..constitute an assemblage typical of an area mineralized by granitic ichor. 1965A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (ed. 2) viii. 183 When he [sc. Sederholm] was urged to define his ‘ichor’ in more material terms, as he often was, he suggested ‘a magma containing much water in a gaseous state’. |