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<h1>Librate</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li"brate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Librated</er> <?/; <tt>p. pr. & & vb. n.</tt> <er>Librating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>libratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>librare</ets> to balance, to make even, fr. <ets>libra</ets>.Cf. <er>Level</er>, <er>Deliberate</er>, <er>Equilibrium</er>.]</ety> <def>To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised.</def>

<blockquote>Their parts all <b>liberate</b> on too nice a beam. <i>Clifton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Librate</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li"brate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To poise; to balance.</def>

<h1>Libration</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li*bra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>libratio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>libration</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or state of librating.</def>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest.</def>

<cs><col>Libration of the moon</col>, <cd>any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receives different names according to the manner in which it takes place</cd>; as: <stype>(a)</stype> <i>Libration in longitude<i>, that which, depending on the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month. (<stype>b</stype>) <i>Libration in latitude<i>, that which depends on the varying position of the moon's axis in respect to the spectator, causing the alternate appearance and disappearance of either pole. (<stype>c</stype>) <i>Diurnal<i> or <i>parallactic libration<i>, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere.</cd></cs>

<h1>Libratory</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li"bra*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.</def>

<h1>Librettist</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li*bret"tist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who makes a libretto.</def>

<h1>Libretto</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li*bret"to</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Librettos</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, It. <plw>Libretti</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[It., dim. of <ets>libro</ets> book, L. <ets>liber</ets>. See <er>Libel</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The words themselves.</def>

<h1>Libriform</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li"bri*form</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Liber</ets> + <ets>-form</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.</def>

<cs><col>Libriform cells</col>, <cd>peculiar wood cells which are very slender and relatively thick-walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits.</cd></cs>

<i>Goodale.</i>

<h1>Libyan</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib"y*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.</def>

<h1>Lice</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <def><tt>pl.</tt> of <er>Louse</er>.</def>

<h1>Licensable</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li"cens*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That can be licensed.</def>

<h1>License</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Li"cense</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <altsp>[Written also <asp>licence</asp>.]</altsp> <ety>[F. <ets>licence</ets>, L. <ets>licentia</ets>, fr. <ets>licere</ets> to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin to <ets>linquere</ets> to leave. See <er>Loan</er>, and cf. <er>Illicit</er>, <er>Leisure</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; <as>as, a <ex>license</ex> to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors</as>.</def>