Word Meanings - LUBRICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.

• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Lubricate
  To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
• Lubrication
  The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Lubricator
  One who, or that which, lubricates.
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• Slippery
  Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

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