2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.

3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery;

incontinency. Sir T. Herbert.

As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem.

Dryden.

Lu"bri*cous (?), a. [L. lubricus.] Lubric.

{ Lu`bri*fi*ca"tion (?), Lu`bri*fac"tion (?), } n. [L. lubricus lubric

+ facere to make.] The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray.

Bacon.

||Lu`carne" (?), n. [F., fr. L. lucerna a lamp. See Luthern.] (Arch.) A

||dormer window.

||

Luc*chese" (?), n. sing. & pl. [It. Lucchese.] A native or inhabitant

of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca.

Luce (?), n. [OF. lus, L. lucius a kind of fish.] (Zoöl.) A pike when

full grown. Halliwell.

Lu"cen*cy (?), n. The quality of being lucent.

Lu"cent (?), a. [L. lucens, p. pr. of lucere to shine, fr. lux, lucis,

light.] Shining; bright; resplendent. " The sun's lucent orb." Milton.

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