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Lubricant   /lˈubrəkənt/   Listen
Lubricant

noun
1.
A substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery.  Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator.






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"Lubricant" Quotes from Famous Books



... mixed with graphite, vaseline affords a valuable lubricant for application to the axles of light and heavy carriages of every description, and for all bearings in machinery of any kind, especially where great speed is required. A paste is also prepared from it which renders leather harness soft, pliable, impervious to ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... fussing as though you were a couple of girls at your first dance," declared Dick, as he adjusted the valves of the oil cups to supply a little more lubricant to the new motor, which had not yet warmed up to its work. "Innis acts as though he were sorry he hadn't come out in his dress uniform, and as for you, Paul, I'm beginning to think you are afraid you hadn't shaved. What's it all about, anyhow? Old man Bruce won't care whether you have on one tan ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis

... C. Graphite is found in the oldest rock formations, in the United States and Siberia. It is artificially formed in the iron furnace. Graphite is employed for crucibles where great heat is required, for a lubricant, for making metal castings, and, mixed with clay, for lead-pencils. It is often ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams

... oil and probably cotton-seed oil may be used in the cylinder. Olive oil is a fine lubricant, and is used largely in the Italian and ...
— Two Thousand Miles On An Automobile • Arthur Jerome Eddy

... a lubricant. It is added to poultices as an emollient in pneumonia and skin diseases. Internally, olive oil is nutritious and laxative, and a purgative in infants in doses of one teaspoonful. In adults it is a useful remedy in many irritant poisons, excepting phosphorus. It is given in ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... extorted there, under the high, cool lustre of the saloon, a twinkle of crystal and silver, had not only poured oil upon the troubled waters of their question, but had fairly drenched their whole intercourse with that lubricant. She had exceeded the limit of discretion in this insistence on her capacity to repay in proportion a service she acknowledged as handsome. "Why handsome?" Maggie would have been free to ask; since if she had been veracious ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James



Words linked to "Lubricant" :   substance, drilling mud, drilling fluid, lubricating substance, lubricate, motor oil, lube



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