(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
Varnish is an oily liquid which is painted onto wood or other material to give it a hard, clear, shiny surface.
The ~ comes in six natural wood shades.
N-MASS
2.
The ~ on an object is the hard, clear, shiny surface that it has when it has been painted with ~.
He brought out the fiddle, its ~ cracked and blistered.
N-SING
3.
If you ~ something, you paint it with ~.
Varnish the table with two or three coats of water-based ~...
...the ~ed floorboards.
VERB: V n, V-ed
4.
see also nail ~