librate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: librate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for librate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
librate v determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken" Synonym(s): weigh, librate vibrate before coming to a total rest; "the children's swing librated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Librate \Li"brate\ (l[imac]"br[amac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Librated} (l[imac]"br[asl]t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Librating}.] [L. libratus, p. p. of librare to balance, to make even, fr. libra. Cf. {Level}, {Deliberate}, {Equilibrium}.] To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. Their parts all librate* on too nice a beam. --Clifton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Librate \Li"brate\, v. t. To poise; to balance.