ichor

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Life is short, though life is sweet: but sweeter to live for ever; sweeter to live ever youthful like the Gods, who have ichor in their veins--ichor which gives life, and youth, and joy, and a bounding heart Then Talus said, 'Who are you, strange maiden, and where is this ichor of youth Then Medeia held up a flask of crystal, and said, 'Here is the ichor of youth.

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  1. noun Greek Mythology The rarefied fluid said to run in the veins of the gods.
  2. noun Pathology A watery, acrid discharge from a wound or ulcer.

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  • The green armor parted, spilling a yellow ichor, and the Dree emitted a hiss. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • In moments every one had been skewered, hopping, gushing pale ichor, and querulously plucking bolts from their pierced limbs. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Splotches of greenish watch-wher ichor were visible in the light from the glows, but Dask continued to claw at the barrier. —  DRAGON'S KIN
  • The corpse's head flew from its shoulders, dribbling a line of sludgy black ichor, and landed with its empty eyes staring into mine. —  Butcher, Jim - Dead Beat (v1.0) (html).html
  • Torn flesh, organs, ichor, and shattered carapace gushed from the hole the golem had cut. —  Asimov'sSF,June2007
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  1. Middle English icor, from Late Latin īchōr, from Greek īkhōr.

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  1. = French ichor = Spanish icor = Portuguese ichor = Italian icore, from New Latin ichor, from Greek ἰχώρ, juice, the blood of the gods, the serum of blood, lymph; cf. ἰκμάς; moisture, ἰκμαίνειν, wet.
 

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