Lac

Lac - Other Definitions

• (n.) Alt. of Lakh
  
  
• (n.) A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the 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.
  
  
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lace
  
  
• (n.) The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.
  
  
• (n.) A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.
  
  
• (n.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.
  
  
• (n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.