Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or operation of lubricating, or of making slippery.
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- noun
lubrication
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Examples
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But when he bolts down his sugar-plums whole without any previous lubrifaction, (which he always does, if allowed,) and crams and crams until, however much like poor Oliver he may cry for more, he finds it impossible to coax or force another plum into his distended stomach, what are the sad consequences?
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