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

Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered. The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs. Landor.

mself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.

Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.

Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.

pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify. We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city. Hammond.

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

sted with the executive government, or some branch of it. "All Christian rulers and magistrates." Book of Com. Prayer. Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. Blackstone.

The office or rank of a major.

A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. A tree may be maturated artificially. Fuller.

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable. Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham. The pure and bening light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. Washington.

Same as Meliorator.

To commemorate. [Obs.]

To measure. [Obs.]

a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.