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Lace
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- 1 A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. uncountable
"c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces."
- 2 a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns wordnet
- 3 A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. countable
"your laces are untied, do them up!"
- 4 a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) wordnet
- 5 A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. countable, uncountable
"The king had ſnared been in loues ſtrong lace, [...]"
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- 6 Spirits added to coffee or another beverage. countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
"He is forced every Morning to drink his Dish of Coffee by itself, without the Addition of the Spectator, that used to be better than Lace to it."
- 1 To fasten (something) with laces. ergative
"When Jenny's stays are newly laced."
- 2 add alcohol to (beverages) wordnet
- 3 To interweave items. transitive
"to lace one's fingers together"
- 4 spin, wind, or twist together wordnet
- 5 To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel. transitive
"For these and other reasons, you may want to lace a new rim onto an existing hub, or vice versa. For some reason, probably because of the maze and complex angles of spokes, lacing and building a wheel has for years been a virtual mystery to even skilled home bike mechanics."
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- 6 draw through eyes or holes wordnet
- 7 To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. transitive
"I'll Lace your Coat for ye."
- 8 do lacework wordnet
- 9 To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material. transitive
"cloth laced with silver"
- 10 make by braiding or interlacing wordnet
- 11 To intersperse or diversify with something. figuratively, transitive
"The throne speech opening the New Democrat government’s second legislative session Dec. 2 was a modest document featuring caution and pragmatism laced with a few tidbits of democratic socialism."
- 12 To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). transitive
- 13 To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble lace. transitive
"The world we lived in was wide, and most of it was open to us with little trouble. Roads, railways, and shipping lines laced it, ready to carry one thousands of miles safely and in comfort."
Etymology
From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.
From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).
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