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Definition
move or swing from side to side regularly
or:
waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
or:
waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- "Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.Chapters 7-9 -- The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (64% in)
There are no more uses of "oscillate" in Moby Dick.
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