[f. LUBRICATE v.: see -ATION.] The action of lubricating or the condition of being lubricated.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., viii. (1804), 132. The healing lubrication of the mucilage.
1870. Yeats, Nat. Hist. Comm., 206. Rape oil is more suitable than any other oil for the lubrication of machinery.