lace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: laces
form: lacing
form: laced
form: laced
Etymology: From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
glosses: To fasten (something) with laces.
examples: text: to lace one's fingers together
text: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: 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 temple door.
ref: 1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
text: Flanner's old-fashioned, staunch feminism runs throughout and laces together these letters.
ref: 1986 April 12, Robin Lippincott, “Passionate Friendship, Old-fashioned Feminism”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: To interweave items.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1973 March 24, Eugene A. Sloane, “How to build and lace a bicycle wheel”, in Popular Mechanics, page 21:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
examples: text: I'll Lace your Coat for ye.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
examples: text: cloth laced with silver
text: Under these windows, white and azure-laced
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:
glosses: To intersperse or diversify with something.
glosses: To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: Battenberg lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: belace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: Binche lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: bobbin lace
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word: bootlace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: Cluny lace
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word: enlace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: fairy lace
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word: golden lace
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word: Honiton lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: inlace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: interlace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: laceability
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: laceable
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word: laceback
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lacebark
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: laceflower
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lace into
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word: lace job
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: laceleaf
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: laceless
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lacelike
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lace machine
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lacemaker
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word: lacemaking
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word: laceman
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word: lacepod
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word: lacery
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word: lace up
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lace-up shoes
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word: lace-ups
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word: lacewear
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word: laceweight
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word: lacewing
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lacewoman
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word: lacewomen
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word: lacewood
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lacework
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: laceworker
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: laceworks
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: lacy
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: Lille lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: Limerick lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: machine lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: manillese lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: mislace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: necklace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: needle lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: needlelace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: overlace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: pillow lace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: relace
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word: sandlace
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: sea lace
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word: self-lacing
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word: staylace
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word: sycamore lace bug
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
word: unlace