Lȳmph, n.
(limf), n. [Lat. lympha, Fr. lymphe, probably allied to Gr. νύμφη], a nymph or inferior goddess, a goddess of fertilizing moisture, especially of those springs, the waters of which were impregnated with exciting or entrancing fumes; the Muses, who were originally of like nature, are often called nymphs by the poets; hence, all persons in a state of rapture, as seers, poets, madmen, &c., were said to be caught by the nymphs, νυμφόληπτοι, Lat. lymphati, lymphatici. See LYMPHATIC.
Sense 1. A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent fluid like water.
A fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene Nothing of earthly mixture might distain. Trench.
Sense 2. A colorless fluid in animal bodies, contained in certain vessels called lymphatics.