ˈlubrical, a. ? Obs.
[Formed as prec. + -al1.]
= prec. in various senses; also, voluble.
| 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster v. i, What, shall thy Lubricall and glibbery Muse Liue, as she were defunct, like Punque in Stewes! 1656 Blount Glossogr., Lubrical, Lubricious, slippery, deceitful, incertain; stirring, wanton, lascivious. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 164* A smooth, continuall, equall and lubricall juice. 1867 Longfellow Dante's Par. xxiii. 57 All the tongues That Polyhymnia and her sisters made Most lubrical with their delicious milk. |