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v. - Shake before coming to a total rest; Determine the weight of.

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  • But to librate (rhyming in fact with vibrate) is eventually to seek rest by balancing out its wavering motions.
  • The irritative motions that belong to the sense of pressure, or of touch, are attended to, and the patient conceives the bed to librate, and is fearful of falling out of it.
  • In the vertigo of intoxication, when the patient lies down in bed, it sometimes happens even in the dark, that the bed seems to librate under him, and he is afraid of...
  • The child then drops upon the ground, and the neighbouring objects seem to continue for some seconds of time to circulate around him, and the earth under him appears to...
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