Word Meanings - LIBRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. Their parts all liberate on too nice a beam. Clifton.

Related words: (words related to LIBRATE)

• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• VIBRATE
  1. To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate. 2. To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• RESTY
  Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.
• RESTIFORM
  Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• RESTEM
  1. To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak. 2. To stem, or as, to restem a current.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• EQUILIBRIUM
  aequilibrium, fr. aequilibris in equilibrium, level; aequus equal + 1. Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces. 2. A level position; a just poise or balance in respect
• RESTRAIN
  restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• PRESTIGIOUS
  Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• PRESTIGIATOR
  A juggler; prestidigitator. Dr. H. More.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• FOREST
  A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.