LAC
\lˈak], \lˈak], \l_ˈa_k]\
Definitions of LAC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Alt. of Lakh
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A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
By Oddity Software
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Alt. of Lakh
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A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
By Noah Webster.
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A gummy substance formed on certain trees by an insect; when melted, called shellac, and used in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Milk. 2. Any whitish, milky looking liquid. 3. An exudate of a scale insect. 4. The exuded sap of certain trees, used as a varnish.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The term used in the E. Indies for 100,000, primarily applied to money. At the exchange of 50c. for the rupee, a lac-$50,000.
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A resinous substance, produced on trees in the East by the lac insect, used in dyeing.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A resinous substance.
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A resinous substance formed by an insect on certain trees in the East, which yields a fine red dye.
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In India, 100,000, as a lac of rupees.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A resinous substance exuded from an East - Indian scale - insect; also, other similar substances; used for making varnishes, lacquer, shellac, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A resinous substance obtained from certain trees, used in the manufacture of sealing-wax, varnishes, dyes, &c.; shell-lac, lac in the form of a thin crust.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Milk- l. Ammoniaci, Mistura ammoniaci- l. Amygdalae, Emulsio amygdalae- l. Asafoetidae, Mistura asafoetidae-l. Avis, Albumen ovi-l. Guaiaci, Mistura Guaiaci.
By Robley Dunglison
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A gummy incrustation consisting of resin, coloring matter, laccin, and a small proportion of wax and saline matters formed on the twigs and young branches of various trees. In its crude state it is very astringent and is now chiefly employed as an ingredient in sealing wax, etc.
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Any milklike fluid.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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