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Shellac

noun
1.
Lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white.
2.
A thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood.  Synonym: shellac varnish.
verb
(past shellacked; past part. shellacked; pres. part. shellacking)
1.
Cover with shellac.  Synonym: shellack.



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"Shellac" Quotes from Famous Books



... glass, and with another vertical sheet on one side. A glass filament, not thicker than a horsehair, and from a quarter to three-quarters of an inch in length, was affixed to the part to be observed by means of shellac dissolved in alcohol. The solution was allowed to evaporate, until it became so thick that it set hard in two or three seconds, and it never injured the tissues, even the tips of tender radicles, to which it was applied. ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin
... number of thin discs of steel, held together in a lathe. There are various grades of coarseness, from No. 00 to No. 3. Its uses are manifold: as a substitute for sandpaper, especially on curved surfaces, to clean up paint, and to rub down shellac to an "egg-shell" finish. Like sandpaper it should not be used till all the work with cutting tools is done. It can be manipulated until ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes


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