The Collaborative International Dictionary
gum-lac
gum-lac \gum-lac\ n. an inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar.
WordNet
gum-lac
n. an inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar
Usage examples of "gum-lac".
Towards the close of 1815 a man, a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron.