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Table of Contents WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

shellac

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun shellac has 2 senses

shellac(n = noun.substance) Array - lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white; Array

is a kind of

lac

Derived form verb shellac₁

shellac(n = noun.artifact) shellac varnish - a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood; Array

has particulars: french polish, french polish shellac

is a kind of varnish

Derived form verb shellac₁

Verb shellac has 1 sense

shellac(v = verb.contact) shellack - cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"

is one way to seal, varnish

Derived forms noun shellac₂, noun shellac₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

shellac, n. [Shell + lac a resinous substance; cf. D. shellak, G. schellack.].

Lac which has been reduced to a thin crust. See the Note under 2d Lac. [1913 Webster]
A solution of shellac{1} in alcohol or other volatile solvent, used as a varnish. [PJC]
A phonograph record, made of a material containing shellac; -- no longer manufactured. [PJC]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

shellac, n. & v.
--n. lac resin melted into thin flakes and used for making varnish (cf. LAC(1)).
--v.tr. (shellacked, shellacking)
1 varnish with shellac.
2 US sl. defeat or thrash soundly.

Etymology

SHELL + LAC, transl. F laque en {eacute}cailles lac in thin plates

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THESAURUS

shellac

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

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