deliquescent

[Lat. deliquescens.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. 1. †2. Fig .: Melting or di olving away insensibly; easily consumed, as money. property. II. Technically : 1. Chem.: Having the quality of becoming liquefied by the absorption of moisture from the air; liquefying in the air. 2. Bot .. Branched in such a manner that the stem I. Ord. Lang.: One who delineates or represents is lost in the branches. pictorially or verbally. "A modern delineator of character."-Ruskin. II. Technically : 1. Tailoring : A pattern formed by rule; being expansible in the directions where the sizes vary, as indicated by the varying lengths obtained by measurement. 2. Surveying : A perambulator, or geodetical instrument on wheels, with registering devices for recording distances between points; a pendulum arrangement by which a profile line is inscribed on a traveling strip; and certain other data, according to construction. *dě-lin-e-a-tõr-ý, a . [Eng. delineat (e); -ory.] Delineating, descriptive. "The delineatory part of his work."- Scott , in Ogilvie . *dě-lin-e-a-türe, s . [Eng. delineat(e); -ure.] Delineation. *dě-lin-1-ment, s . [Latin del in i mentum , from delinio to soften down: de =down, and lenis soft.] 1. A mitigating or a uaging of pain. 2. That which mitigates or a uages pain. *dě-lin-1-tion, s . [As if from a Latin delinitio , from deli no =to besmear.) The act of besmearing. "The del in it i on also of the infant's ears and nostrils with the spittle." H. More: Mystery of Iniquity, broth xviii., §7. (Trench: On some Def. of our Eng. Dict ., p. 6.) dě-lin-quen-çř, s. [Lat. delinquent i a , from delinquo to fail in doing.] [DELICT.] A failure or omi ion of duty; a fault, an offense, a misdeed, a misdemeanor. Hist. Eng ., ch. vi. a tribunal which might investigate, reform, and punish all ecclesiastical delinquencies ."-Macaulay: dě-lin-quent, a. & s. [Lat. delinquens , pr. par. of delinquo to fail in doing; Fr. délinquant .] *A. As adj .: Failing in or omitting one's duty; offending by neglect. the most delinquent were deprived of their public territory, and received colonies of Roman set tlers."-Lewis: Cred. Early Roman Hist . (1855), ch. xiii., pt. ii, § 21. B. As subst.: One who fails in or omits a duty; one who offends by neglect of duty; an offender, а culprit. "Does law, so jealous in the cause of man, Denounce no doom on the delinquent ?" Cowper: Task, vi. 431, 432. de-lin-quent-ly, adv. [Eng. delinquent; -ly.] By way of delinquency or neglect of duty. *de-lin-quish-ment, s. [Cf. relinquishment.] Relinquishment, giving up. (Patient Gri il, 1603.) *děl-I-quate, v . t . & i . [Lat. deli quat us , pa. par. of deliquo to pour out: de away, and liquo =to melt.] A. Trans.: To melt, to di olve. ". as the lixivia of tartar, or the deliquated salts of tartar do."- Sir W. Petty , in Sprat's Hist . R. S., p. 292. B. In trans.: To melt or di olve away. "It will be resolved into a liquor very analogous to that which the chymists make of salt of tartar, left in moist cellars to deliquate ."- Boyle . ing away.