APPENDIX I. 
Technical Terms used in the Lac and Shellac Industry. 
Brood-lac 
Button-lac ... 
Fine 
Garnet-lac ... 
Grain-lac 
Lac-dye 
Orange 
Seed-lac 
Shellac 
Standard I ... 
Stick-lac 
Superfine 
TN 
Antia 
Arhatiya, Ardar. 
A. — English. 
... Lac about to swarm and used for infecting 
host-trees. 
... Refined lac made up in button shape. 
... Term used for the better grades of shellac. 
... An inferior class of refined lac so called 
from its dark colour ; made up in thick 
slabs or shapeless lumps. 
... Lac crushed fairly uniformly to about 
the size of a pea and washed free 
from dye. 
... The colouring matter obtained from lac 
by washing with water. 
... A grade of shellac so called from its light 
colour. 
... An ambiguous term synonymous with 
both grain-lac and brood-lac. Owing 
to this ambiguity it has not been used 
in this report. 
... Refined lac stretched into thin sheets and 
then broken into small fragments. The 
term is also used generically to include 
all forms of refined lac. 
... A grade of shellac just superior to TN. 
... Crude lac in all its forms. 
... The highest grades of shellac, 
... Usually surrounded by a diamond ; a 
non-proprietary mark of low-grade 
shellac. 
B .— Vernacular. 
... A bundle of brood-lac (Sonthal Parganas). 
... A commission agent or broker who con¬ 
ducts stick-lac sales. 
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