Dictionary entry

Lubricity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lu‐bric″i‐ty (?), n. [L. lubricitas: cf. F. lubricité.]

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

2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.

3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert.

As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.