varnish : Idioms & Phrases


Japan varnish

  • a varnish prepared from the milky juice of the Rhus vernix, a small Japanese tree related to the poison sumac.
Webster 1913

japanese varnish tree

  • noun small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained
    Japanese sumac; lacquer tree; Rhus verniciflua; Toxicodendron vernicifluum; Chinese lacquer tree; Japanese varnish tree; Japanese lacquer tree.
  • noun deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods
    phoenix tree; Firmiana simplex; Chinese parasol tree; Chinese parasol.
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nail varnish

  • noun a cosmetic lacquer that dries quickly and that is applied to the nails to color them or make them shiny
    nail enamel; nail polish.
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Ormolu varnish

  • a varnish applied to metals, as brass, to give the appearance of gold.
Webster 1913

Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish

  • a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as a varnish, in making candles, and as a substitute for incense and for amber. Called also liquid copal, and white dammar.
Webster 1913

shellac varnish

  • noun a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
    shellac.
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Varnish tree

  • noun large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles
    candlenut; Aleurites moluccana.
  • noun small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained
    Japanese sumac; lacquer tree; Rhus verniciflua; Toxicodendron vernicifluum; Chinese lacquer tree; Japanese varnish tree; Japanese lacquer tree.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a tree or shrub from the juice or resin of which varnish is made, as some species of the genus Rhus, especially R. vernicifera of Japan. The black varnish of Burmah is obtained from the Melanorrh&oe;a usitatissima, a tall East Indian tree of the Cashew family. See Copal, and Mastic.
Webster 1913