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noun

Lacing n.

1.

The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

2.

A lace; specifically (Mach.), A thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.

3.

(Naut.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.

4.

(Bridge Building) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.

5.

A quantity of a substance, such as an alcoholic liquor, added to a food or a drink; as, punch with a lacing of rum.

6.

A beating, especially with a lash.

verb

Lace v. t. (past & past part. laced; pres. part. lacing)

1.

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. "When Jenny's stays are newly laced."

2.

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

3.

To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. (Colloq.) "I'll lace your coat for ye."

4.

To add something to (a food or beverage) so as to impart flavor, pungency, or some special quality; as, to lace a punch with alcohol; to lace the Kool-Aid with LSD. (Old Slang)

5.

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 temple door."

Lace v. i. To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.

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Etymology of 'Lacing'

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"Lacing" Quotes from Famous Books

... than the milliner's, as where he asserts that the plaits of a rose-colored dress are "the lips of my unappeased desires," or describes March as a barber, powdering the wigs of the blossoming almond trees, and a valet, lacing up the rosebuds in their corsets of green velvet. Whatever he touches he leaves artificial, "enameled," yet charming. The verses added in the present edition are more pensive, even sombre. A life given to art wholly, without patriotism or religion or philosophy, does not prepare the greenest ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various

... have headaches it comes from tight-lacing, and not walking enough, and carrying all manner of nasty smells about with them. I know what headaches mean. How is a woman not to have a headache, when she carries a thing on the back of her poll as big as a gardener's wheel-barrow? ...

— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope

... your treachery is spurring me, till I'm hard set to think you're the one I'm after lacing in my heart-strings half-an-hour gone by. (To Mahon.) Take him on from this, for I think bad the world should see me raging for a Munster liar, and ...

— The Playboy of the Western World • J. M. Synge

... subsided and a picture, clearer than most photographs, could be seen in the center. A wondrously slender, yellow-haired young girl clad in Grecian robes of pale blue sat in deep despond upon a plain wooden couch, with a black haired servant kneeling before her, apparently lacing sandals on ...

— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various

... strip of deer hide eight inches long by one and a half wide, shave it, double the hair side in, and attach it to the seamy side of the quiver by perforating the leather and inserting a lacing of buckskin thongs. Leave the loop of this strap projecting two inches above the top of the quiver. In the bottom of your quiver drop a round piece of felt or carpet to prevent the arrow points coming ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

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