When Jenny's stays are newly laced. --Prior.
2. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative
material; as, cloth laced with silver. --Shak.
3. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.]
I'll lace your coat for ye. --L'Estrange.
4. To add spirits to (a beverage). [Old Slang]
His hat hung at his back down by a lace. --Chaucer.
For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself
he tied. --Spenser.
2. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a
net. [Obs.] --Fairfax.
Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace.
--Chaucer.
3. 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
costlylaces. --Bacon.
4. 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}, & {Pillow lace}. See under {Pillow}.
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.