Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small balance.
- n. An instrument for taking levels; a level.
- n. [capitalized] A southern constellation which Laeaille, after 1754, proposed to substitute for Triangulum Australe, which dates from the fifteenth century.
- n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of dragon-flies.
- n. A Roman brass coin, the as of diminished weight.
Wiktionary
- n. A small balance.
- n. A level, or levelling instrument.
Etymologies
- Latin, diminutive of libra balance. See level. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“These confessors sent letters of recommendation in the name of the dead martyrs (libella pacis) to the bishop in favor of the renegades.”
“Proh Deûm atque hominum fidem! quare illi, cui ne libella nummi est, dentes, stomachum, viscera concessit natura? mehercule, nostro ludibrium debens corpori, frustra laboravit a patre voluntario exilio, qui macrum ligone macriorem reddit agellum.”
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