Deliquium
De*liq"ui*um\, n. [L. See Deliquiate.]1. (Chem.) A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium. [R.] 2. A sinking away; a swooning. [Obs.] --Bacon. 3. A melting or maudlin mood. --Carlyle.| deliquium | |
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| a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint] |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |