01 n. One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.
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One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.[East Indies]
Entry
2 senses · 2 variants
Webster, 1913
Lac
/(lăk)/
· IPA /læk/
02 n. A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), …
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A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly 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.
Phrases & compounds
Ceylon lac —
a resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac.
Lac dye —
a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac.
Lac lake —
the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum.
Mexican lac —
an exudation of the tree Croton Draco.