Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shellac

2 senses of shellac

Sense 1
shellac -- (lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white)
       => lac -- (resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax)

Sense 2
shellac, shellac varnish -- (a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood)
       => varnish -- (a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shellac

1 sense of shellac

Sense 1
shellac, shellack -- (cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots")
       => varnish, seal -- (cover with varnish)