Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GUM'LAC
GUM-ELASTIC, or ELASTIC-GUMGUM'MI-NESS
GUM'LAC, n.
The resinous produce of an insect which deposits its eggs on the branches of a tree called bihar, in Assam, a country bordering on Tibet, and elsewhere in Asia. [See Lac.] Nicholson.
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