librate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb determine the weight of
    weigh.
    • The butcher weighed the chicken
  2. verb vibrate before coming to a total rest
    • the children's swing librated

WordNet

Li"brate intransitive verb
Etymology
L. libratus, p. p. of librare to balance, to make even, fr. libra.Cf. Level, Deliberate, Equilibrium.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Librated present participle & & verbal noun Librating
Definitions
  1. To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised.
    Their parts all liberate on too nice a beam. Clifton.
Li"brate intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To poise; to balance.

Webster 1913