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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.

To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.

One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.

That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.

One who, or that which, lubricates. " Lubricator of the fibers." Burke.

See Lubricate.

discharge, through minute orifices in the edges of the lids, a fatty secretion serving to lubricate the adjacent parts.

Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.

To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

. They secrete an oily semifluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.

oil is carried over the edge of a tube in a cotton wick, and so reaches the surface to be lubricated. -- Siphon gauge. See under Gauge. -- Siphon pump, a jet pump. See under Jet, n.