a. [ad. L. liquescent-em, pr. pple. of liquescĕre to become liquid: see -ESCENT.] That is in process of becoming liquid; apt to become liquid.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Liquescent, melting, consuming.
1758. Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chem., I. 23. They … attract the moisture of the air, and are thereby melted into a liquor. These may be called Liquescent Salts.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), II. 486. The spinal marrow … was found disorganised and liquescent.
transf. a. 1849. Poe, Ulalume, Poems (1859), 69. At the end of our path a liquescent and nebulous lustre was born.
1867. Bailey, Universal Hymn, 16. Globelets of liquescent flame.
b. Of a sound: Tending to a ‘liquid’ pronunciation.
1755. Johnson, s.v. Malign, The g is mute or liquescent.
Hence † Liquescentness.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Liquescentness, aptness to melt.
