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lubricous, a.|ˈl(j)uːbrɪkəs|
Also 6 Sc. lubricus.
[f. L. lūbric-us lubric + -ous.]
1. Slippery, smooth; slimy; oily.
1659H. More Immort. Soul ii. vi. 177 It is not such a lubricous Substance as the Animal Spirits, nor so disunited. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iii. i. (1723) 145 The Parts of it being very voluble and lubricous,..it easily insinuates it self into..the Tubes. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxxiii. 344 Consider the fluid in a vessel..to consist of a vast number of small, equal, lubricous, spherical globules. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xvii. 119 Without falling..from their lubricous or seemingly perilous station. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 543/2 The skin of the Cephalopods is thin and lubricous. 1861H. Macmillan Footn. Nature 163 [Ulva bulbosa] with its excessively soft and lubricous masses, appearing as if in a state of fermentation.
2. fig.
a. ‘Slippery’, shifty; unstable; elusive.
1646Speech without Doors defended without Reason 7 He..leaves the safety of Embassadors in a most lubricous posture. 1655–87H. More App. Antid. (1712) 203 This proof or reason is the most lubricous and unmanageable of any that I have made use of. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 125 All observations of this kind must be very lubricous and uncertain. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 230 She..transferred, with a lubricous mobility [L. mobilitate lubrica], her nefarious love to a far more pernicious hatred.
†b. Voluble, glib. Obs. rare.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 49 Such a lubricous Faculty of spouting out so many Prodigal Expressions.
†c. Insinuating. Obs. rare.
1792W. Roberts Looker-on No. 51 (1797) III. 20 A certain magical grace of manner, a lubricous insinuating softness slides into every action and gesture.
3. Lascivious, wanton. rare.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 533 Rycht lubricus with sic lust and delyte, As brutell best takis his appetyte. 1898Q. Rev. Jan. 193 The lubricous fancies of a half-demented day-dreamer [Rousseau]. |