librate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LI'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin libro, from libra, a balance, a level; allied perhaps to Eng. level.] To poise; to balance; to hold in equipoise. LI'BRATE, verb intransitive To move, as a balance; to be poised. Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.
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