English Dictionary

ichor

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈaɪkɔː/

名詞

ギリシャ語 可算名詞 不可算名詞 広義 詩語 比喩的用法 古語 廃用

(Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.

日本語の意味

ギリシャ神話において、神々の血の代わりに流れるとされる液体

Legends claim that a single drop of ichor can heal wounds that mortal blood cannot and grant uncanny insight.

伝説によれば、神々の血の一滴は人間の血では癒せない傷を癒し、不思議な洞察力を与えると言われている。

意味（1）

(Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.

This ſaid, ſhe wip’d from Venus’ wounded Palm / The ſacred Ichor, and infus’d the Balm.

意味（2）

(chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma.

He had merely meant to express his feeling that the streams which ran through their veins were not yet purified by time to that perfection, had not become so genuine an ichor, as to be worthy of being called blood in the genealogical sense.

意味（3）

(chiefly poetic, figuratively) A blood-like fluid.

[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; […]

意味（4）

(geology, archaic) A fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite.

意味（5）

(pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.

ichors （ plural ）