deliquesco

dē-lĭquesco, lĭcŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to melt away, dissolve, melt (very rare).

I.

Lit.:

utinam tua ista in sortiendo sors delicuerit,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 47:

ubi delicuit nondum prior (sc. nix), altera venit,

Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 15:

Hyrie flendo delicuit,

id. M. 7, 381; cf. id. ib. 4, 253.—

II.

Trop., to melt away, pine away; to vanish, disappear: qui nec tabescat molestiis nec frangatur timore nec alacritate futtili gestiens deliquescat, * Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 37; Lact. 7, 12.