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LACE, n. [L. laqueus.]

1. A work composed of threads interwoven into a net, and worked on a pillow with spindles or pins. Fine laces are manufactured in France, Italy and England.

2. A string; a cord.

3. A snare; a gin.

4. A plaited string with which females fasten their clothes.

Doll ne'er was called to cut her lace.

LACE, v.t.

1. To fasten with a string through eyelet holes.

When Jenny's stays are newly laced -

2. To adorn with lace; as cloth laced with silver.

3. To embellish with variegations or stripes.

Look, love, what envious streaks.

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

4. To beat; to lash; [probably to make stripes on.]

I'll lace your coat for ye.


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LACE, n. [L. laqueus.]

1. A work composed of threads interwoven into a net, and worked on a pillow with spindles or pins. Fine laces are manufactured in France, Italy and England.

2. A string; a cord.

3. A snare; a gin.

4. A plaited string with which females fasten their clothes.

Doll ne'er was called to cut her lace.

LACE, v.t.

1. To fasten with a string through eyelet holes.

When Jenny's stays are newly laced -

2. To adorn with lace; as cloth laced with silver.

3. To embellish with variegations or stripes.

Look, love, what envious streaks.

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

4. To beat; to lash; [probably to make stripes on.]

I'll lace your coat for ye.

LACE, n. [Sp. lazo, a tie or knot; Fr. lacet; It. laccio; L. laqueus.]

  1. Work composed of threads interwoven into a net, and worked on a pillow with spindles or pins. Fine laces are manufactured in France, Italy and England.
  2. A string; a cord. – Spenser.
  3. A snare; a gin. – Fairfax.
  4. A plaited string with which females fasten their clothes. Doll ne'er was called to cut her lace. – Swift.

LACE, v.t.

  1. To fasten with a string through eyelet holes. When Jenny's stays are newly laced. – Prior.
  2. To adorn with lace; as, cloth laced with silver. – Shak.
  3. To embellish with variegations or stripes. Look, love, what envious streaks / Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. – Shak.
  4. To beat; to lash; [probably to make stripes on.] I'll lace your coat for ye. – L'Estrange.

Lace
  1. That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.

    His hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer.

    For striving more, the more in laces strong
    Himself he tied.     Spenser.

  2. To fasten with a lace] to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces.

    Shak.

    When Jenny's stays are newly laced. Prior.

  3. To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.
  4. To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine.

    The Gond . . . picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temble door. Kipling.

  5. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

    [Obs.] Fairfax.

    Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace. Chaucer.

  6. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.

    Shak.
  7. A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.

    Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces. Bacon.

  8. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.

    [Colloq.]

    I'll lace your coat for ye. L'Estrange.

  9. Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage.

    [Old Slang] Addison.

    Alencon lace, a kind of point lace, entirely of needlework, first made at Alencon in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost. -- Bone lace, Brussels lace, etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc. -- Gold lace, or Silver lace, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. -- Lace leather, thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts. -- Lace lizard (Zoöl.), a large, aquatic, Australian lizard (Hydrosaurus giganteus), allied to the monitors. -- Lace paper, paper with an openwork design in imitation of lace. -- Lace piece (Shipbuilding), the main piece of timber which supports the beak or head projecting beyond the stem of a ship. -- Lace pillow, ***and] Pillow lace. See under Pillow.

  10. To add spirits to (a beverage).

    [Old Slang]
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Lace

LACE, noun [Latin laqueus.]

1. A work composed of threads interwoven into a net, and worked on a pillow with spindles or pins. Fine laces are manufactured in France, Italy and England.

2. A string; a cord.

3. A snare; a gin.

4. A plaited string with which females fasten their clothes.

Doll ne'er was called to cut her lace

LACE, verb transitive

1. To fasten with a string through eyelet holes.

When Jenny's stays are newly laced -

2. To adorn with lace; as cloth laced with silver.

3. To embellish with variegations or stripes.

Look, love, what envious streaks.

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

4. To beat; to lash; [probably to make stripes on.]

I'll lace your coat for ye.

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