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Shell-lac   Listen
noun
Shell-lac, Shellac  n.  
1.
Lac which has been reduced to a thin crust. See the Note under 2d Lac.
2.
A solution of shellac (1) in alcohol or other volatile solvent, used as a varnish.
3.
A phonograph record, made of a material containing shellac; no longer manufactured. (Obsolescent)





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"Shell-lac" Quotes from Famous Books



... for an ingrain carpet to an expenditure for shellac and paint with which he showed Amarilly how to do the floors. Some cheap but pretty rugs were selected ...
— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates
... around the eyes and nose, giving the latter a touch of the proper color (black for the majority of animals). A coat of thin shellac to simulate the natural moist appearance and connecting the dried eyelids with the glass eyes with hot colored wax will about complete the rug. Waxing around the eyes is done with a small round artist's brush and adds to the ...
— Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit • Albert B. Farnham
... their toothy mandibles, but that was all right. I didn't have to look exactly like them, just something close, to soothe the native mind. It's logical. If I were an ignorant aborigine of Earth and I ran into a Spican, who looks like a two-foot gob of dried shellac, I would immediately leave the scene. However, if the Spican was wearing a suit of plastiflesh that looked remotely humanoid, I would at least stay and talk to him. This was what I was aiming to ...
— The Repairman • Harry Harrison
... is essential that the head of the primer shall be placed flat and pressed close upon the vent, that the hammer may strike it fairly. The tip of shellac, by which the lower end of the tube is sealed, occasionally obstructs the jet of flame so as to split the tube. In this case the flame is dispersed laterally, and fails to ignite the charge; it is therefore a good ...
— Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. - 1866. Fourth edition. • Bureau of Ordnance, USN


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