[f. LUBRICATE v.: see -ATION.] The action of lubricating or the condition of being lubricated.

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1802.  Paley, Nat. Theol., viii. (1804), 132. The healing lubrication of the mucilage.

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1870.  Yeats, Nat. Hist. Comm., 206. Rape oil is more suitable than any other oil for the lubrication of machinery.

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