vibrant (vibrant)

[ Each man has his private barometer of hope, the mercury in which is more or le sensitive, and the opinion vibrant with its rise or fall. Lowell , Fireside Travels, p. 119. vibrant So stirring and vibrant with commerce and speculation. The Century, XXVI. 828. 2. Of sounds, resonant; sonorous; characterized by a perceptible vibration; sometimes, tremulous. Gaily the old man sang to the vibrant sound of his fiddle. Long fellow, Evangeline, i. 4. Her eyes were brilliant, her glance was tender, her voice was vibrant with feeling. C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 8. vibrate (vi'brāt), v.; pret. and pp. vibrated, ppr. vibrating. [ It. vibrare = Sp. Pg. vibrar = F. vibrer ), set in tremulous motion, move to and fro, brandish, shake; cf. Skt. ✔ vip, tremble.] I. in trans. 1. To swing; oscillate; move one way and the other; play to and fro, as the pendulum. The government would vibrate between the two factions (for such will parties have become) at each succe ive election. Calhoun, Works, I. 42. 2. To move in any kind of stationary motion under forces of restitution, commonly with a rapid motion. 3. To produce a vibratory or resonant effect; thrill; quiver: as, a whisper vibrates on the ear. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Shelley, To —. Stephen had the fibre of noblene in him that vibrated to her appeal. George Eliot, Mill on the Flo , vi. 11. 4. To fluctuate or waver, as between two opinions. II. trans. 1. To cause to move or wave to and fro; cause to swing or oscillate; hence, to throw with a vibratory motion; hurl. That orator [Pericles) of whom (amongst so many that vibrated thunderbolts) it was said peculiarly that he thundered and lightened. De Quincey , Style, iii. 2. To affect with vibratory motion; cause to quiver: as, vibrated breath.-3. To measure or indicate by vibrating or oscillating: as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.