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Latin. n. Milk, milky juice of plants, spat spawn (of oyster).

 - n. One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.

 - 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. Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. ...