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Be poised to tell tales about unruly child
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librate
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Word definitions for librate in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken" [syn: weigh ] vibrate before coming to a total rest; "the children's swing librated"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year vb. To oscillate (like the beam of a balance)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Librate \Li"brate\, v. t. To poise; to balance.
Usage examples of librate.
Le sue compagne che erano nell'acqua più profonda e stavano nuotando gli sembravano librate a mezz'aria.
Then, opening his eyes, he beheld betwixt himself and the sun, librating on spread wings, that various-colored glory of plumes and feathers which he knew as the gazolba.
Such measurements, performed over a period of years, reveal the Moon to be librating, or quivering with a period (about three years) and amplitude (about three meters), consistent with the idea that the crater Giordano Bruno was gouged out less than a thousand years ago.