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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Like ichor; thin; watery; serous.
  2. Full of ichor; ichorose.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Resembling or relating to ichor.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies

Examples

  • “And you know what that tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart is uniquely attuned to?”

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  • “Well, why not, if it's going to give that tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart a tiny, ichorous lizard orgasm?”

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  • “And yes, the tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart wants nothing more than for someone to extract a pound of flesh from Goldman Sachs.”

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  • “When a watery and ichorous discharge flows from the rectum, wash it out with burnt lees of wine, and water from myrtle, and having dried maiden-hair, pound and sift it, and apply as a cataplasm.”

    On Fistulae

  • “When this happens, a fistula is formed, having an ichorous discharge, and faeces pass by it, with flatus and much and abomination.”

    On Fistulae

  • “The wound then must necessarily become discolored and its lips everted, the discharge will be ichorous and without pus, and the bones, which should not have got into a state of necrosis, exfoliate; and the wound gets into a throbbing and inflamed condition.”

    On Fractures

  • “Many parts of his hands on the inside were chapped, and on the middle joint of the thumb of the right hand there was a small phagedenic ulcer, about the size of a large pea, discharging an ichorous fluid.”

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox

  • “Sometimes it will even produce an ichorous fluid, and yet the system will not be affected.”

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox

  • “The cow-pox appeared at a farm in the village of Stonehouse, in this county, about Michaelmas last, and continued gradually to pass from one cow to another till the end of November, On the twenty-sixth of that month some ichorous matter was taken from a cow and dried upon a quill.”

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox

  • “Mr. Tierny remarks that the arms of many who were inoculated after having had the cow-pox inflamed very quickly, and that in several a little ichorous fluid was formed.”

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox

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