What is "lubricating"

Usage examples of "lubricating".

Fifty eggs well fried will yield about five ounces of this oil, which is acrid, and so enduringly liquid that watch-makers use it for lubricating the axles and pivots of their most delicate wheels.

He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.

Camelford to get things Dugan urgently needed like distilled water, petrol, cleansing oil, gear and lubricating oils, cotton waste and a firkin of beer.

The animal scent of her lubricating juices wafted its way to his nostrils, another instant jerk reminding his penis of the honeypot awaiting its attention.

From the crude oil thus distilled there will be produced something like 10,000,000 gallons of refined burning oil annually, besides crude solid paraffin, and other products, such as naptha and lubricating oils.

Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.

The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.

It smelled of lubricating oil, the blood of tyrant lizards with cogs and wheels for teeth, which lay strewn and silent in the dark waiting.

In fact, two of the unpredicted quakes had finally been attributed to lakes being dug, one as far as five hundred miles away, water filling the lake, filtering down into the cracks in the rocks and lubricating hidden faults.

It was full of condoms in brightly colored foil wrappers, and there was a large tube of lubricating jelly.

This was but one tactic m a larger campaign of simultaneous financial aggrandizement and Imperial wooing Vladimir also played both ends against the middle, forming lucrative partnerships with lesser Houses while he channeled donations under various labels into Imperial accounts He would buy out lesser House investments with the guarantee of a percentage (less depreciation and overhead) while lubricating his consolidations with ad visory fees to the CHOAM directors them selves to secure their acceptance House HARKONNEN VLADIMIR 297 HARKONNFN VLADIMIR Cornno naturally received royalties under the table along with military conscripts raw materials and finished products on negotiated terms a euphemism for kickbacks Indeed much of Vladimir s success can be attributed to an unerring instinct for the timing and placement of bribes When his financial prac tices were questioned by a Landsraad Dele gation of Inquiry he said What benefits Harkonewt benefits the Landsraad What benefits the Landsraad .

The batteries were so gummed up by the cold that they couldn't even have turned over a hot engine, far less one in which the crankcase, transmission and differential were all but locked solid in lubricating oil that had lost all power to lubricate anything and had been turned into a super viscous liquid with the consistency and intractability of some heavy animal glue.

I searched around in the car boot, listening to my teeth chattering, till I came on a jar of antiseptic lubricating cream.

Jennifer could have done with more socially lubricating hypocrisy—.

The body, after all, is a machine, a marvelous machine made of many kinds of tissues and fluids, chemicals and minerals, a sophisticated assemblage with one heart-engine and a lot of little motors, a lubricating system and an aircooling system, ruled by the computer brain, with drive trains made out of muscles, all constructed upon a clever calcium frame.