Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small balance.
- noun An instrument for taking levels; a level.
- noun [capitalized] A southern constellation which Laeaille, after 1754, proposed to substitute for Triangulum Australe, which dates from the fifteenth century.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of dragon-flies.
- noun A Roman brass coin, the as of diminished weight.
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- noun A small
balance . - noun A
level , or levellinginstrument .
Etymologies
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Latin, diminutive of libra balance. See level.
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Examples
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These confessors sent letters of recommendation in the name of the dead martyrs (libella pacis) to the bishop in favor of the renegades.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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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.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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