lubricant

Not hard to imagine what drives this number – money, the ever swelling lubricant of elective office.

A tube of lubricant also flew into the stalls as a duvet was swiftly scooped up.

Credit is the lubricant that moves the machinery of global commerce.

And researchers in Australia are currently working on a study of lubricant use among breast-cancer survivors.

Language like that is a lubricant to the calamity all around us.

The tube should be dipped in warm water just before using: the use of glycerin or other lubricant is undesirable.

The most common solid employed as a lubricant is graphite, sometimes termed “plumbago” or “black lead.”

The cylinder walls are oiled by the spray of lubricant thrown off the revolving crank-shaft by centrifugal force.

Thus it is actually upon a film of lubricant that a shaft rests, rather than upon the bearing,113 or "box," in which it turns.

Mr. Shenstone recommends a lubricant composed of camphor dissolved in turpentine for general purposes.