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Webster 1913 Edition

Lac

Lac

,
Noun.
[Per.
lak
; akin to Skr.
lākshā
: 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.
☞
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.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lac

LAC

,
Noun.
Gum-lac, so called, but improperly, not being a gum, but a resin. It is deposited on different species of trees in the East Indies, by an insect called Chermes lacca. Stick lac is the substance in its natural state, encrusting small twigs. When broken off and boiled in water, it loses its red color, and is called seed lac. When melted and reduced to a thin crust, it is call shell lac. United with ivory black or vermilion, it forms black and red sealing wax. A solution with borax, colored by lampblack, constitutes Indian ink. Lac dissolved in alcohol or other menstrua, by different methods of preparation, constitutes various kinds of varnishes and lackers.

Definition 2024

lać

lać

See also: lac, lâc, lắc, lạc, Lạc, -lac, and Appendix:Variations of "lac"

Polish

Verb

lać impf

  1. (transitive) to pour (to cause to flow in a stream)
    Budowniczy lali beton na fundamenty, gdy zdarzył się wypadek.
    Builders were pouring concrete for the foundations when the accident happened.
  2. (colloquial, intransitive) to pour down; to rain heavily
    Nie wychodź na dwór, od rana leje.
    Don't go outside, it's been pouring down since morning.
  3. (colloquial) to beat up; to hit
    Czego mnie lejesz, to był tylko żart!
    Why are you hitting me, it was just a joke!
  4. (slang) to piss
    To nie Wersal, lej pod jakieś drzewko.
    This ain't Versailles, piss under some tree.
  5. (slang, by extension) to not care; ignore
    Leję na to.
    I don't care about this.

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Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 297

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lat͡ɕ/

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