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lac
Part of speech: NounA gummy substance formed on certain trees by an insect; when melted, called shellac, and used in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, etc.
Usage examples "lac":- The lac trade in the Jaintia Hills and in the southern portion of the Khyrim State is a valuable one. - "The Khasis", P. R. T. Gurdon.
- And he did, upon the principle aforesaid, and by the means suggested by a principle of that sort, accordingly levy from the country, and did regularly discharge to the British Resident at Benares, by monthly payments, the sums imposed by the said Warren Hastings, as it is asserted by the Resident, Fowke; but the said Warren Hastings did assert that his annual collections did not amount to more than Lac 37, 37, 600, or thereabouts, which he says is much short of the revenues of the province, and is by about twenty- four thousand pounds short of his agreement. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.
- On the District there were but few changes, but among them was the bringing of two new men to Fond du Lac. - "Thirty Years in the Itinerancy", Wesson Gage Miller.