Sekirov Dictionary

lace

/leɪs/

verb 8
noun 4
forms 4
phrases 2

verb8

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To fasten (something) with laces.
- When Jenny's stays are newly laced. — 1718
To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
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(figurative) To intersperse or diversify with something.
- 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. — 1982
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To interweave items.
- to lace one's fingers together
To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
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To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
- cloth laced with silver
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To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble a lace.
- 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. — 1951
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To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- I'll Lace your Coat for ye. — 1692

noun4

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A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
- Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces. — 1620
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A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
- your laces are untied, do them up!
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A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- The king had snared been in loues strong lace, [...] — 1600
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(slang, no longer used) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
- 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. — 1711

forms

laced · lacing · laces · laceth

Phrases with lace

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