ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Made slippery or smooth; oiled, oily.
1781. Cowper, Retirement, 57. The shapely limb and lubricated joint.
1836. Broderip, in Penny Cycl., V. 24/1. His [a boa constrictor’s] stretched jaws and lubricated mouth and throat.
1864. in Wilberforce, Life Bp. Wilberforce (1882), III. v. 141. He [Lord Westbury] said the ‘judgement is simply a series of well lubricated terms.’
