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▪ I. shellac, n.|ʃəˈlæk, ˈʃɛlæk|
Also 8 shellack, shel-lack, shell-lake, shell lack, 8–9 shell-lac, shell lac.
[transl. F. laque en écailles lac (see lac1) in thin plates. (Cf. G. schalenlack, beside schellack from English.)]
1. Lac melted and run into thin plates; formerly used esp. in the manufacture of gramophone records.
1713Mercator No. 93/4, 1370 l. Shellack. 1716Gt. Brit. Weekly Pacquet No. 17 Gum Shell Lack, Ditto Seed Lack, Ditto Stick Lack. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1787) II. 79 Lacks, such as shel-lack, stick lack, &c. 1734–5Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 20 A Cake of Shell-Lake. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xvii. (1842) 476 Varnished with a solution of shell lac in strong alcohol. 1873Spon in Work-shop Rec. Ser. i. 23/1 Shellac is the only cement used by jewellers for jet articles. 1913Jrnl. Franklin Inst. CLXXVI. 192 These modern composition disk records are in reality seals of the human voice, because the substance they are made of is a modified sealing wax,..containing shellac as a basic substance. Ibid., Shellac is much adulterated, and the mineral and fibrous substances which are added require careful selection. 1933Amer. Speech VIII. 13/1 Professor Jones..has them [sc. cardinal vowels] recorded on shellac. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 266 Formerly, shellac was used for pressing records, and having much greater elasticity was suitable for record materials when only very heavy..pick-up heads were available.
attrib.1765T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sciences II. s.v. Japanning, The proper japan ground..is much the best formed of shell-lac varnish. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 792 Shell-lac varnish is rather softer than seed-lac varnish. 1876Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 12 Carbolised shellac plaster.
2. A gramophone record made of shellac.
1954Billboard 21 Aug. 18/2 Unless a publisher could get hold of an acetate of his song, he had to wait until the shellacs were ready. 1977G. V. Higgins Dreamland xvi. 180, I remember the phonograph playing... There was one tune... He played it all the time, scratchy and noisy as the old shellacs were.
▪ II. shellac, v. orig. and chiefly U.S.|ʃɛˈlæk|
Also shellack; pa. pple. shellacked.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. To coat or varnish with shellac.
1876Scribner's Monthly Feb. 488/1 It is made of plain white pine, brought to a good surface and shellacked. 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork iii. 139 Book-shelves have been made of pine, painted in flat color or stained and shellacked. 1917C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 90 Wayne threatened to varnish or shellac the paper so that it would turn the rain. 1969Sunday Times 9 Feb. 58/1 They tend to wear dark blue silken suits or little black dresses and look as if they had been shellacked or sprayed with fixative just before they left home.
2. slang. To beat, thrash, punish.
1930C. F. Coe Gunman iv. 53 These two bums that Lefty shellacked were members of Red Karfola's gang. 1935J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 7 Shellack, to punish or beat. 1977Time 8 Aug. 28/2 Pitcher McArdle was shellacked for..six runs in the first inning.
Hence sheˈllac(k)ed ppl. a., (a) coated, varnished, or fastened with shellac; (b) U.S. slang, intoxicated, ‘plastered’.
1882Harper's Mag. Oct. 688 The bedrooms are shellacked and some are stained of a deep tint. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 88 A piece of sapphire which is..shellaced to a brass handle. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 419 The shellacked cotton, oil, and other materials with which the transformer circuits are insulated. 1922Dialect Notes V. 148 Shellacked, stewed, bunned, etc. 1935J. T. Farrell Judgment Day i. iv. 85 You know, when I first found out about how you'd get shellacked, I thought it was pretty terrible. 1941Wyndham Lewis Let. 17 Oct. (1963) 300 The silly ‘toughness’ of the Irish immigrant mass, shellacked into a sly, bluff, servility. 1948H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 644 When a novelty is obvious it seldom lasts very long, e.g., shellacked for drunk. |