liquescent

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At the end of the path a liquescent

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  1. adjective Becoming or tending to become liquid; melting.

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  • (_Oh, Dolly!_) "I suppose there may be some excuse for canvassing among people who do not take much interest in politics,--though I shouldn't like to do it,--but it would be rather a waste of time for me or any one else to come and try on that sort of thing with you_, wouldn't it, Mr Gulching Mr Gulching, outwardly frigid but inwardly liquescent, agrees that this is so; and adds in a truculent growl that he would like to see 'em try it on What I really want," continues Dolly, "is your advice_. —  The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
  • At the end of our path a liquescent —  Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
  • He slumped in a motionless, nearly liquescent heap. —  Zehru of Xollar
  • At the end of the path a liquescent —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • From the whole, soft, liquescent fluid scene, the impression which I derived was melancholy. —  Through Russia
 

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  1. Latin liquēscēns, liquēscent-, present participle of liquēscere, to become liquid, inchoative of liquēre, to be liquid.

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  1. = Spanish licuescente, from Latin liquescen(t-)s, present participle of liquescere (later Portuguese liquescer), become fluid, from liquere, be fluid: see liquid.
 

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