lac

A resinous secretion of lac insects, used in making shellac.

A Middle English form of lack.

The sum of 100,000, usually of rupees.

A resinous incrustation deposited on the twigs of various trees in India and southern Asia by the lac-insect, Carteria lacca.

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.

a resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac.

a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac.

the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum.

an exudation of the tree Croton Draco.