It's the Word of the Day for October 29th.

Today's word is deliques spelled D-E-L-I-Q-U-E-S-C-E.

Deliques is a verb. It can mean to dissolve or melt away, or in reference to some

fungal structures such as mushroom gills, it can mean to become soft or liquid with age or maturity.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Apollo by Robert McFarlane. He would mold his figures in full in wax,

then take a hot knife and, like a metaphysical surgeon, cut away triangles, rhomboids, flaps,

and scraps until only a latticework was left. These new shape-shifting figures comprised

more gaps than joins.

Bodies in the delicate arduous process of shedding their skins,

scattering into metal petals, being eroded and deliquesque.

Things were freshly able to pass through these painstakingly hard-to-cast bronzes, light-air, sight.

The word deliquesquez comes from the prefix D-DE, meaning from, down, or away,

and a form of the Latin verb, liqueuré, meaning to be fluid. Things that deliquesqueous, it could be said,

turn too much in more ways than one.

In scientific contexts, a substance that deliquesces absorbs moisture from the atmosphere

until it dissolves in the absorbed water and forms a solution.

When plants and fungi deliques, they lose rigidity as they age.

When deliquesquees is used in non-scientific contexts, it's often in a figurative or humorous way

to suggest the act of melting away under exhaustion, heat, or idleness, as in teenagers deliquescing in 90-degree temperatures.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokimoski.

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