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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LYMPH, n. [L. lympha.] Water, or a colorless fluid in animal bodies,separated from the blood and contained in certain vessels called lymphatics.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to the blood stream by lymphatic vessels

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin lympha, water goddess, water, perhaps modification of Greek nymph? nymph — more at nuptial Date: circa 1673 1. archaic the sap of plants 2. [New Latin lympha, from Latin, water] a usually clear coagulable fluid that passes from intercellular spaces of body tissue into the lymphatic vessels, is discharged into the blood by way of the thoracic duct, and resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 Physiol. a colourless fluid containing white blood cells, drained from the tissues and conveyed through the body in the lymphatic system. 2 this fluid used as a vaccine. 3 exudation from a sore etc. 4 poet. pure water. Phrases and idioms: lymph gland (or node) a small mass of tissue in the lymphatic system where lymph is purified and lymphocytes are formed. Derivatives: lymphoid adj. lymphous adj. Etymology: F lymphe or L lympha, limpa water

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lymph Lymph, n. [L. lympha: cf. F. lymphe.] 1. A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water. A fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene Nothing of earthly mixture might distain. --Trench. 2. (Anat.) An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart. 3. (Med.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together. Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lymph and chyle. Lymph duct (Anat.), a lymphatic. Lymph heart. See Note under Heart, n., 1.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lymph Lymph, n. (Physiol. Chem.) A fluid containing certain products resulting from the growth of specific micro["o]rganisms upon some culture medium, and supposed to be possessed of curative properties.

Moby Thesaurus

chyle, colostrum, discharge, gleet, humor, ichor, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, matter, milk, mucor, mucus, peccant humor, phlegm, purulence, pus, rheum, saliva, sanies, serous fluid, serum, snot, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, urine