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Definitions of lac:
part of speech: noun
The term used in the E. Indies for 100, 000, primarily applied to money. At the exchange of 50c. for the rupee, a lac-$ 50, 000.
part of speech: noun
A resinous substance obtained from certain trees, used in the manufacture of sealing- wax, varnishes, dyes, & c.; shell- lac, lac in the form of a thin crust.
part of speech: noun
A gummy substance formed on certain trees by an insect; when melted, called shellac, and used in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, etc.
part of speech: noun
A resinous substance, produced on trees in the East by the lac insect, used in dyeing.
Usage examples for lac:
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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 -
The Villa du Lac
"The Chink in the Armour", Marie Belloc Lowndes -
These hills extended in a long line of gradual descent far back to the wooded borders of Lac du Bois; and within the circuit which they formed on the one side, and the irregular half circle of a sluggish bayou on the other, lay the cultivated open ground of the plantation- rich in its exhaustless powers of reproduction.
"At Fault", Kate Chopin