I Am Looking For Two Words (Fake Gold, Fluid)...

I like to browse thru dictionaries sometimes. You’d be surprised what unique words you can discover that way. One time while browsing thru my dictionary I came across an interesting word. It is the word for an alloy which bears a striking resemblance to gold. In fact it is often used in fake jewelry for that very purpose. It might contain copper, I honestly don’t remember though. This word is interesting because it is also used for insincere words or something like that. This is all I remember about this one word.

Also, I was thinking of adding this next one in another thread. But I thought, “what the heck”, include it in this one too. I am also looking for a word I found in a much older dictionary, and some years before the last one. It is the name for the clear watery fluid that sometimes oozes out of human skin when you are cut. It is interesting because it is also the name the ancient Greeks gave for the fluid that supposedly flowed thru gods’ veins instead of blood. I say I found it in an old dictionary because I don’t know if it is used i the human-fluid sense anymore. I want to say the word sounds like “Acryl”. But I honestly don’t remember.

Hey, I don’t know how to look up words like this. I know Google and Wikipedia can’t be used this way. So for future reference, if anyone knows how to look up words this way, please tell me:).

Thank you in advance to all who reply:)

The first is maybe fool’s gold, or pyrite? The second would be ichor.

Thank you, the fluid is definitely Ichor. I remember it now. The first one however is not fool’s gold. I think the word I am looking for is not used too often, if that is any help. Does anyone else have any guesses:)?

I think you’re looking for ormolu.

I’d have guessed serum for the clear fluid. Darn.

Thank you, Yllaria. I just looked in my dictionary, and that is definitely it. The only thing is my dictionary has nothing about the insincere talk thing. I wonder where I read that.

ETA: Never mind

Now those are a couple of good Scrabble words for you.

I would’ve thought Electrum…an alloy of gold and silver.

Also, I’ve heard “blister juice” is in fact lymph, or histamine.

The Merriam-Webster Unabridged gives as def. 3 for “ormolu”: