Lac Definition

lăk
noun
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.
Webster's New World

Lakh.

Webster's New World
One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).
Wiktionary
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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

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Portuguese laca from Persian لاک (lāk) from Hindi लाख (lākh) from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Urdu لاکھ; Hindi लाख (lākh); Sanskrit लक्षं (lakṣaṇ).

    From Wiktionary

Lac Sentence Examples

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

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

  • The chief exports are raw cotton, rice, wheat, oil-seeds, hides and lac. The exports of wheat are liable to extreme fluctuations, especially during famine periods.

  • The best of them, and the best thing that Lamartine ever did, is the famous Lac, describing his return to the little mountain tarn of Le Bourget after the death of his mistress, with whom he had visited it in other days.

  • The principal church, Notre Dame du Lac, begun in the 12th and enlarged in the 15th centuries, is still unfinished.

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Words Starting With

LLALAC

Words Ending With

CACLAC

Unscrambles

lac

Words Starting With L and Ending With C

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With L3 Letter Words Ending With C