deliquium

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.
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deliquium

noun
a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint
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Deliquium is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
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