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===Etymology===

 

Sense 2.4 (“fetid, watery discharge from a sore”) is from {{inh|en|enm|icor}}, {{m|enm|icore}}{{nb...|ycor, ycore|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=icor(e|pos=n|id=MED21658}}</ref> from {{bor|en|ML.|ichor}}; see further above.

 

===Pronunciation===

 

===Noun===

 

# {{lb|en|Greek mythology}} The [[liquid#Noun|liquid]] [[say#Verb|said]] to [[flow#Verb|flow]] in [[place#Noun|place]] of [[blood#Noun|blood]] in the [[vein#Noun|veins]] of the [[god#Noun|gods]]. {{defdate|from late 17th c.}}

#* {{RQ:Cowper Homer|volume=I|book=V|page=121|lines=387–393|passage=With his protruded ſpear her gentle hand / He wounded, piercing through her thin attire / Ambroſial, by themſelves the [[w:Charities|Graces]] wrought, / Her inſide wriſt, faſt by her roſy palm. / Blood follow'd, but immortal; '''ichor''' pure, / Such as the bleſt inhabitants of heav'n / May bleed, nectareous; {{...}}}}

#* {{RQ:Byron Vision of Judgment|stanza=XXV|page=11|passage=He &#91;{{w|Saint Peter}}&#93; potter'd with his keys at a great rate, / And sweated through his apostolic skin: / Of course his perspiration was but '''ichor''', / Or some such other spiritual liquor.}}

##* {{RQ:Burton Melancholy|edition=5th|chapter=Of the Matter of Melancholy|partition=1|section=1|member=3|subsection=[3]|page=34|passage=['''I''']'''chores''' and thoſe ſerious matters being thickned become flegme, and flegme degenerates into choler, choler aduſt becomes ''æruginoſa melancholia'', as vinegar out of the pureſt wine putrified or by exhalation of purer ſpirits is ſo made, and becomes ſowre and ſharp; {{...}}}}

##* {{RQ:Frost Poems|poem=Departmental|page=331|passage=Go bring him [an ant] home to his people. / Lay him in state on a sepal. / Wrap him for shroud in a petal. / Embalm him with '''ichor''' of nettle.}}

## {{lb|en|geology|archaic}} A fluid [[believe]]d to [[seep#Verb|seep]] out from [[magma]] and [[cause#Verb|cause]] [[rock#Noun|rock]] to [[turn into]] [[granite]].

## {{lb|en|pathology|obsolete}} A [[fetid]], [[watery]] [[discharge#Noun|discharge]] from a [[sore#Noun|sore]]; [[pus#Noun|pus]].

 

====Derived terms====

 

====Translations====

{{trans-top|liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods}}

* Basque: {{t|eu|ikor}}

* Esperanto: {{t|eo|iĥoro}}, {{t|eo|ikoro}}

* French: {{t+|fr|ichor|m}}

* Greek: {{t+|el|ιχώρ|m}}

*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ῑ̓χώρ|m}}

* Italian: {{t+|it|icore|m}}

* Japanese: {{t|ja|イーコール}}

* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|icor|m}}

* Russian: {{t+|ru|ихор|m}}

 

{{trans-top|blood-like fluid}}

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{{trans-top|fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite}}

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* Greek:

*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ῑ̓χώρ|m}}

* Polish: {{t+|pl|posoka|f}}

* Russian: {{t+|ru|ихор|m}}

 

===Anagrams===

 

[[Category:en:Bodily fluids]]