Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lac , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See the Note under
lac .
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- noun lac in its natural state as scraped off twigs and dried
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Examples
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The hardened sap incrusts twigs forming _stick-lac_; when crushed, washed, and freed from the woody matter it is _seed-lac_; when melted and cooled in flakes it is _shell-lac_, the form best known in commerce.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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The stick-lac is collected by the Gonds and Korkus and sold to the Lakheras; they clear it of wood as far as possible and then place the incrusted twigs and bark in long cotton bags and heat them before a fire, squeezing out the gum, which is spread out on flat plates so as to congeal into the shape of a pancake.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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The spire itself was "painted with red stick-lac," probably the same preparation of vermilion as is used at the present day on the lacquered ware of Burmah, Siam, and China. [
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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June 21, 2022