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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Liquefying in the air; capable of becoming liquid by attracting moisture from the atmosphere: as, deliquescent salts.
  2. Hence Apt to dissolve or melt away; wasting away by or as if by melting.
  3. In vegetable histology, liquefying or melting away gradually, as part of the normal process of growth.
  4. In botany, branching in such a way that the stem is lost in the branches.
  5. n. A substance which becomes liquid by attracting moisture from the air.
  6. n. In botany, becoming liquid at maturity, as certain agarics.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. chemistry absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution
  2. adj. botany Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid.
  2. adj. (Bot.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

Etymologies

  1. Latin deliquescens, present participle of deliquesco; de + liquesco ("I melt"): compare French déliquescent. (Wiktionary)

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  • “His songs have been co-opted of late under the ironic rubric of "yacht rock," but classic songs like "Sailing" and "Ride Like the Wind"—both from a ubiquitous debut album with a deliquescent pink flamingo on it—serve nonetheless now as minor masterpieces of melody and mood.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Go Back to Those Gold Sounds

  • “Dean creates webs of deliquescent, wintry sounds, through which the singer threads the atomised texts, syllable by syllable; it's fragile and transient, and finally delicately elusive.”

    The Guardian: Cheltenham festival

  • “It is like putting your foot on a rock only to find that it has become deliquescent and trickled away.”

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  • “As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles.”

    Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

  • “When, on the other hand, the composition of the deliquescent particles is congenial to the tongue, and disposes the parts according to their nature, this remedial power in them is called sweet.”

    Timaeus

  • “There was a time when naif alphabetters would have written it down the tracing of a purely deliquescent recidivist, possibly ambidextrous, snubnosed probably and presenting a strangely profound rainbowl in his (or her) occiput.”

    Finnegans Wake

  • “Besides which he was deliquescent and scarlet, and felt so.”

    The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll

  • “Guermantes, who, a great deal more ‘old French’ even than the Duke when he was not trying, did often deliberately seek to be, but in a manner the opposite of the lace-neckcloth, deliquescent style of her husband and in reality far more subtle, by a sort of almost peasant pronunciation which had a harsh and delicious flavour of the soil.”

    The Guermantes Way

  • “But you will not care for it; it is not deliquescent enough, not fin de siècle enough for you; it is too frank, too honest; what you want is Bergotte, you have confessed it, high game for the jaded palates of pleasure-seeking epicures.”

    The Guermantes Way

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  1. dissolving

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Other words for ‘deliquescent’

  1. hydrophilic

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  1. pralidoxime
  2. Epsom
  3. mercuric
  4. stannous
  1. poly(vinyl
  2. 24
  3. benzoyl
  4. unreduced
  1. auric
  2. lewis-valent
  3. dust-free
  4. hypertonic
  1. potassic
  2. t-butyl
  3. tetrazolium
  4. nitroguanidine
  1. methylene
  2. microcosmic
  3. iluminum
  4. acetyl
  1. rehydration

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. citraconic acid
  2. cacodylic acid
  3. glyoxal
  4. erythrosiderite
  5. shaggy-mane
  6. tartrelic
  1. scacchite
  2. iron-iodide
  3. juba
  4. calcium phosphate
  5. potassium carbonate
  6. calcium chloride
  1. trichloroacetic acid
  2. calcium nitrate
  3. cubic niter
  4. paraconic
  5. phenose
  6. chili salpeter
  1. sulphine
  2. sulphocyanic
  3. tartralic
  4. taurocholic
  5. vernonin
  6. butter of zinc
  1. choline
  2. deliquescent
  3. excurrent
  4. homatropine
  5. methionic
  6. piperazine
  1. roburite
  2. stachydrine

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  • knitandpurl "But Brichot was determined that I should have my share in the entertainment, and having learned, from those oral examinations which he conducted like nobody else, that the best way to flatter the young is to lecture them, to make them feel important, to make them regard you as a reactionary: 'I have no wish to blaspheme against the Gods of Youth,' he said, with that furtive glance at myself which an orator turns upon a member of his audience when he mentions him by name, 'I have no wish to be damned as a heretic and renegade in the Mallarméan chapel in which our new friend, like all the young men of his age, must have served the esoteric mass, at least as an acolyte, and have shown himself deliquescent or Rosicrucian.'"
    --Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, pp 482-483 of the Modern Library paperback edition Mar 14, 2009

  • knitandpurl "'Don't listen to him, Ma'am, he's having you on; she's as stupid as a (h'm) goose,' came in a loud and husky voice from Mme de Guermantes, who, a great deal more 'old world' even than the Duke when she wasn't trying, often deliberately sought to be, but in a manner entirely different from the deliquescent, lace jabot style of her husband and in reality far more subtle, with a sort of almost peasant pronunciation which had a harsh and delicious flavour of the soil."
    --The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, pp 664-665 of the Modern Library paperback edition Sep 10, 2008

  • knitandpurl "Even in Bergotte's books, all those Chinese puzzles of form, all those subtleties of a deliquescent mandarin seem to me to be quite futile."
    -- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 62 of the Modern Library paperback edition Mar 5, 2008

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