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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To melt away.
  2. v. To disappear as if by melting.
  3. v. Chemistry To dissolve and become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.
  4. v. Botany To branch out into numerous subdivisions that lack a main axis, as the stem of an elm.
  5. v. Botany To become fluid or soft on maturing, as certain fungi.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To melt or dissolve gradually, or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts; melt away.
  2. In vegetable histology, to liquefy or melt away gradually, as part of the normal process of growth: said of certain tissues, especially the gills of fungi of the genus Coprinus. It differs from the analogous process in salts, being a vital phenomenon.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To melt and disappear.
  2. v. intransitive, chemistry To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Chem.) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
  2. v. melt away in the process of decay

Etymologies

  1. Latin dēliquēscere : dē-, de- + liquēscere, to melt, inchoative of liquēre, to be liquid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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