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To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

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

The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.

The moon.

roken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.

An inhabitant of the moon.

The herb moonwort or "honesty".

The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29

Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.]

A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. Bache.

Resembling the moon in shape.

Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, t…

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.

Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

A velvet smoothing brush. Knight.

autionary phrases; as, "Vivace, ma non troppo presto" (i. e., lively, but not too quick). Moore (Encyc. of Music).