Usually means: Protective, glossy coating for surfaces.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. varnish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. varnish: Merriam-Webster
  3. varnish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. varnish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. varnish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. varnish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Varnish, varnish: Wordnik
  8. varnish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. varnish: Wiktionary
  10. varnish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. varnish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. varnish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. varnish: Dictionary.com
  14. varnish (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. varnish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Varnish (disambiguation), Varnish (software), Varnish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Varnish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. varnish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. varnish: Rhymezone
  20. varnish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. varnish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. varnish: FreeDictionary.org
  23. varnish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. varnish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. varnish: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  3. VARNISH: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. varnish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. varnish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. varnish: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Varnish: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  4. varnish: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. varnish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Varnish: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  4. Varnish: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film.
noun:  Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance.
noun:  (by extension) A deceptively showy appearance.
noun:  (rail transport, US, informal, dated) a passenger train, probably derived from the varnished passenger cars used at one time.
verb:  (intransitive) To apply varnish.
verb:  (transitive) To cover up with varnish.
verb:  (transitive) To make something superficially or deceptively attractive
verb:  (transitive) To gloss over a defect.

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