LUBRICITY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.

2.
n.

Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.

3.
n.

Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.


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