Definitions for lacs

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lacs lac

Spelling: [lak]

IPA: /læk/

Lacs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in lacs (acls).

Definitions for lacs

noun

1. a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter. Compare shellac (defs 1, 2).
2. (in India)
3. the sum of 100,000, especially of rupees. The usual punctuation for sums of Indian money above a lac is with a comma after the number of lacs: Rs. 30,52,000 (i.e., 30 lacs and 52,000) instead of 3,052,000.
4. an indefinitely large number.
5. (in prescriptions) milk.

Origin of lacs

1545-55; Hindi lākh ≪ Sanskrit lākṣā

Examples for lacs

There is a much larger difference in the amount, however, as a lac is 100,000.

Or are we to understand that lac was employed as a substitute for pitch?

There are a good many Indians about here, says a letter from lac qui Parle.

This was accomplished with all speed, and it became known as the “house of lac”.

Is't he that looks like an Italian tailor out of the lac'd wheel?

In this delicate island is lac lunae (the mother of silver).

It was located to the south and a little west of lac Vieux Desert.

In the beginning of this story I said what lac Tremblant was like.

I was on my way to work for the Williamsons, missionaries, at lac qui Parle.

“If you can rid me of these children, I will give you 229 a lac of gold pieces,” she said.