Noun shellac has 2 senses
  1. shellac - lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
    --1 is a kind of
    lac
    --1 has substance: stick lac
    Derived form: verb shellac1
  2. shellac, shellac varnish - a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
    --2 is a kind of varnish
    --2 has substances: lac
    --2 has particulars: French polish
    Derived form: verb shellac1
,Verb shellac has 1 sense
  1. shellac - cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
    --1 is one way to
    varnish, seal
    Derived forms: noun shellac1, noun shellac2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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