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shellac (iou) and Baltic (iou)


shellac (iou)



shellac noun & verb. M17.
[from SHELL noun + LAC noun1, translating French laque en ecailles lac in thin plates.]
A. noun.
Lac melted into thin plates and used for making varnish, later used esp. in the manufacture of gramophone records. M17.
attrib.: S. Eldred-Grigg Afternoon tea on a shellac tray.
A gramophone record made of shellac. M20.
b. verb trans. Orig. & chiefly N. Amer. Infl. -ck-.
Coat or varnish (as) with shellac. L19.
Beat, thrash soundly; defeat thoroughly. slang. M20.
R. Coover The Knicks shellacked Mel Trench's Cels, and hung on to their two-game lead.
shellacked ppl adjective (a) coated or varnished (as) with shellac; (b) US slang intoxicated: L19.

Baltic (iou)



Baltic adjective & noun. L16.
[medieval Latin Balticus, formed as BALT: see -IC.]
A. adjective.
Designating, of, or pertaining to an almost land-locked sea separating Scandinavia from the rest of Europe. L16.
the Baltic States Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, which border the Baltic Sea betwen Poland and Russia.
Designating a branch of the Indo-European Languages comprising Lithuanian, Latvian, and Old Prussian, usu. classified with the Slavonic group (see BALTO-). L19.
b. noun. The Baltic Sea; the lands bordering on it. E18.