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ance 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.

One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also lack.] [East Indies]

Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.

A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.

etween sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata. -- Lac`co*lit"ic, a.

parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. His hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer. For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied. Spenser.

A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.

Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace- winged flies.

Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.

Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.

A man who deals in lace.

That can be lacerated or torn.

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.

The act of lacerating.

Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. Harvey.

A muscle of the human body. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A fathom. [Obs.] Domesday Book.

Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia. -- n.

An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.