ē-marcesco, -marcui, 3, v. inch. n., to wither away (very rare).—Trop., to dwindle away, disappear: auctoritas, Plin. 15, 29, 36, 121: refugium, Hier. Ies. 5, 17, 4: cor meum,
fainted
, Vulg. Isa. 21, 4 al. emarcus, i [a Gallic word], a kind of vine, producing a wine of middling quality, Col. 3, 2, 25 (called also marcus, Plin. 14, 2, 4, 32).