ichor
- n (Greek mythology) the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods
- n a fluid product of inflammation
- Walking to school, he has noticed a sign, a spiral traced on the pavement in luminous ichor, angelic slime from the body of some low creature, a worm or snail of which only .
- They bleed milky white ichor and are infested with little parasitical worms (that's how vampirism gets transmitted).
- Some readers may balk at Adams' often gawky, round about sentences, his fondness for such words as "ilk" and "ichor.