Overview of noun shellac

The noun shellac has 2 senses

• shellac -- (lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white)


• shellac, shellac varnish -- (a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood)

Overview of verb shellac

The verb shellac has 1 sense

• shellac, shellack -- (cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots")