librate

English

A librating molecule.

Noun

librate (plural librates)

1. (obsolete) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year

Verb

librate (third-person singular simple present librates, present participle librating, simple past and past participle librated)

1. (intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance)
   • Clifton

     Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.

2. (transitive) To poise; to balance.

Related terms

• libration

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• altbier, betrail, tablier, triable, trilabe

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Italian

Verb

librate

1. second-person plural present indicative of librarsi
2. second-person plural imperative of librarsi
3. feminine plural of librato

Anagrams

• blateri
• libertà
• ribalte
• tribale

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Latin

Participle

lībrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of lībrātus

References

• librate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press