I feel like a good-for-nothing, a cow, damned, antique, deliquescent, in short calm and moderate, which is the last term in decadence.
"The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters"
George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie
When specimens are very old and decaying, the interior may become pulverulent or deliquescent.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Terrestrial, hymenium deliquescent Phalloidei.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke