'Shellac' definitions:
Definition of 'shellac'
From: WordNet
noun
Lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
noun
A thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood [syn: shellac, shellac varnish]
verb
Cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots" [syn: shellac, shellack]
Definition of 'Shellac'
From: GCIDE
- Shellac \Shel"lac`\, Shell-lac \Shell"-lac`\, n. [Shell + lac a resinous substance; cf. D. shellak, G. schellack.]
- 1. Lac which has been reduced to a thin crust. See the Note under 2d Lac. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A solution of shellac[1] in alcohol or other volatile solvent, used as a varnish. [PJC]
- 3. A phonograph record, made of a material containing shellac; -- no longer manufactured. [Obsolescent] --RHUD [PJC]
Definition of 'shellac'
From: GCIDE
- Lac \Lac\, n. [Per. lak; akin to Skr. l[=a]ksh[=a]: cf. F. lague, It. & NL. lacca. Cf. Lake a color, Lacquer, Litmus.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shellac'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apply paint,
- beat,
- bedaub,
- bedizen,
- begild,
- besmear,
- blank,
- brush on paint,
- bulldoze,
- calcimine,
- clobber,
- coat,
- color,
- complexion,
- cover,
- cream,
- dab,
- daub,
- deep-dye,
- defeat utterly,
- dip,
- distemper,
- double-dye,
- drub,
- dye,
- emblazon,
- enamel,
- engild,
- face,
- fast-dye,
- fresco,
- gild,
- glaze,
- gloss,
- grain,
- hue,
- illuminate,
- imbue,
- ingrain,
- japan,
- lacquer,
- lambaste,
- lay on color,
- lick,
- overbear,
- overwhelm,
- paint,
- parget,
- paste,
- pigment,
- prime,
- schmear,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shut out,
- skunk,
- slop on paint,
- smear,
- smother,
- snow under,
- stain,
- steamroller,
- stipple,
- thrash,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tone,
- trim,
- undercoat,
- varnish,
- wash,
- whelm,
- whitewash,
- whomp,
- whop