ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

331. Friction -- N. friction, attrition; rubbing, abrasion, scraping &c v.; confrication † ,
detrition, contrition † , affriction † , abrasion, arrosion † , limature † , frication † , rub; elbow
grease; rosin; massage; roughness &c 256.
rolling friction, sliding friction, starting friction.
V. rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear
down, gnaw; file, grind &c (reduce to powder) 330.
set one's teeth on edge; rosin.
Adj. anatriptic † ; attrite † .
332. [Absence of friction. Prevention of friction.] Lubrication -- N. smoothness &c 255;
unctuousness &c 355.
lubrication, lubrification † ; anointment; oiling &c v.. synovia [Anat.]; glycerine, oil,
lubricating oil, grease &c 356; saliva; lather.
teflon.
V. lubricate, lubricitate † ; oil, grease, lather, soap; wax.
Adj. lubricated &c v.; lubricous.
2. FLUID MATTER
1. Fluids in General
333. Fluidity -- N. fluidity, liquidity; liquidness &c adj. † ; gaseity &c 334 [Obs.].
fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity † ,
gravy, rheum, ichor † , sanies † ; chyle [Med.].
solubility, solubleness † .
[Science of liquids at rest] hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics.
V. be fluid &c adj.; flow &c (water in motion) 348; liquefy, melt, condense &c 335.
Adj. liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous † ; fluent &c (flowing) 348.
liquefied &c 335; uncongealed; soluble.
334. Gaseity -- N. gaseity † ; vaporousness &c adj.; flatulence, flatulency; volatility;
aeration, aerification.
elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud
&c 353; ammonia, ammoniacal gas † ; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.
[Science of elastic fluids] pneumatics, pneumatostatics † ; aerostatics † , aerodynamics.
gasmeter † , gasometer † ; air bladder, swimming bladder, sound, (of a fish).
V. vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor &c 336; diffuse.
Adj. gaseous, aeriform † , ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable † , flatulent.
335. Liquefaction -- N. liquefaction; liquescence † , liquescency † ; melting &c (heat) 384;
colliquation † , colliquefaction † ; thaw; liquation † , deliquation † , deliquescence; lixiviation † ,
dissolution.
solution, apozem † , lixivium † , infusion, flux.
solvent, menstruum, alkahest † .