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‖ libra|ˈlaɪbrə, ˈliːbrə|
[L. lībra pound (12 ounces), balance, constellation so called. (In med.L. used for ‘pound’; hence the mod.Eng. abbreviations. {pstlg} = pound(s) sterling, lb. = pound weight.)]
1. Antiq. A (Roman) pound.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxxx. (1495) 939 Twelue vnces makith Libra and is therfore acountyd a perfyghte weyghte. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 25/1 The Roman libra was used in France for the proportions of their coin till the time of Charlemagne. 1875Jevons Money ix. 89 Units of weight, such as the shekel, the talent, the as, the stater, the libra, the mark, the franc, the lira.
†2. An arm of a balance. Obs.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 19/1 At the other end of the libræ, or levers.
3. (With initial capital.) Astron. One of the zodiacal constellations, lying between Scorpio and Virgo.
b. The seventh sign of the zodiac (♎), which the sun enters on the 23rd of September.
c. Astrol. A person born under the sign of Libra. Also attrib. or as adj.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. x. (1495) 312 The signe that hight Libra in mannes body rulyth the nether guttes of the wombe. c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. 19 In certen tyme of the yere the sonne begynneth in a planete that men call libra. 1559Cunningham Cosmogr. Glasse 35 Aries and Lybra. 1591Nashe Prognostication Wks. (Grosart) II. 167 This autumnall reuolution..beginneth in Libra. 1616T. Adams Plain-dealing 22 We liue under Libra, Iustice and Equitie...we feare not Taurus the Bull. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 558 From Eastern Point Of Libra to the fleecie Starr that bears Andromeda farr off Atlantick Seas. 1708Swift Predict. for 1708, Wks. 1755 II. i. 150 The time that he enters Libra,..which is the busy period of the year. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. §74. 29 The magnificent star⁓clusters, in the constellations..Libra and Aquarius. 1894E. Kirk Influence of Zodiac upon Human Life xii. 88 Libra people are psychic collectors of thought. 1947‘A. Leo’ Astrol. for All (ed. 7) 31 This causes Libra persons to love harmony. 1969‘V. Packer’ Don't rely on Gemini (1970) xix. 164 Mrs. Muckermann's a Libra. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 7 July 9a/2 Miss Jillison, a libra, is married to a slim libra, Joseph Gallagher, film-production executive at 20th Century Fox—a marriage that took place after three dates and her reading his chart. |