Lac definitions

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A resinous secretion of lac insects, used in making shellac.
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A resinous substance secreted by various scale insects, esp. a species (Laccifer lacca) of India, that live on certain fig, soapberry, and acacia trees: when melted, strained, and rehardened, it forms shellac.
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A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect.
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One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).
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Origin of lac

Dutch lac or French laque both from Old French lacce from Medieval Latin lacca from Arabic lakk from Prakrit lakkhā from Sanskrit lākṭā red dye, resin

Sentence Examples

  • Lac is sent in large quantities to Calcutta and Mirzapur.

  • of Fond du Lac, and about 75 m.

  • Appleton was one of the first cities in the United States to have an electric street railway line in operation; and electric street railways now traverse the entire Fox river valley as far as Fond du Lac on the south and Green Bay on the north.

  • The substance known as "milk of sulphur" (lac sulphuris) is very finely divided sulphur produced by the following, or some analogous, chemical process.

  • The city's extensive street railway system connects with interurban electric lines leading to Waukesha, Oconomowoc and Watertown on the west, Sheboygan and Fond du Lac on the north, and Chicago and intermediate points along the lake shore on the south.

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