varnish tree (varnishtre)

Any one of several trees of which the sap or some secretion serves as a lacquer or varnish. The most important of these is the Japan varnish or lacquer-tree (see lacquer tree); also of high importance is the black, Burmese, or Martaban varnish-tree, Melanorrhoca us it at a, the theetsee of the Burmese, a tree of 50 or 60 feet, yielding on incision a sap of an extremely blistering property which forms a lacquer of very extensive local use (see black varnish, under varnish ). In India the marking-nut, or Sylhet varnish tree, Seme carpus Anacardium, with one or two allied species, yields in its fruit an excellent black varnish, as does Holigarna long i folia in its bark. These all belong to the An a card i aceæ. See Hymenæa and Aleurites. - False varnish-tree, the tree-of-heaven, Ailantus glandulosa. More ton Bay varnish-tree. See Pent acer as. - New varnish-tree Granada varnish-tree, a rubiaceous tree of the Andes, in Peru and the United States of Colombia (formerly New Granada), Elæagia utilis, which secretes in the axils of the stipules a resinous substance employed by the natives as a useful and ornamental varnish. varnish-wattle (vär'nish-wot"l), n. See wattle. varrey, n. See varry. varriated (var'i-a-ted), a. [Also variated; Varronian (va-rō'ni-an), a. [L. Var ron i an us, The " Varronian plays" were the twenty which have come down to us, along with one which has been lost. Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 93. varry, varrey (var'i), n.; pl. varries, varreys (-iz). [See vairy, vair.] In her., one of the separate compartments of the fur vair: a rare bearing.