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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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"Lacing" Quotes from Famous Books

... not to be so easily placated. "You mean for Split, don't you?" she said, scarcely looking at him, and diligently lacing her shoe. "She asked you to come, you ...

— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson

... exaggerate the width of the shoulders and the hips; and those whose figures possess that stateliness which is called stoutness by the vulgar, convert what is a quality into a defect by yielding to the silly edicts of Fashion on the subject of tight-lacing. The fashionable English waist, also, is not merely far too small, and consequently quite out of proportion to the rest of the figure, but it is worn far too low down. I use the expression 'worn' advisedly, for a waist ...

— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... but nearly everyone seemed to be asking for recipes to promote the growth of the eyelashes or to prevent embonpoint. Not one she chanced on said, "A red nose in a girl is generally caused by indigestion or tight-lacing." She asked Aldith to suggest something, and that young person thought that vaseline and sulphur mixed together, and spread over the afflicted member, would have the desired effect. So every night Meg fastened her bedroom door with a wedge of wood, keys being unknown luxuries at Misrule, and ...

— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner

... said above about midriff and rib breathing versus collar-bone breathing, the folly of tight-lacing, or, indeed, of in any way interfering with the freedom of the waist, will be at once apparent. We pride ourselves upon our civilization; we make a boast of living in the age of science; physiology is now taught, or at least talked of, in almost every school; the laws of health ...

— The Mechanism of the Human Voice • Emil Behnke

... them have got nervous diseases and all sorts of things wrong with them from over-much tea and tight lacing," replied Errington, "and the few who are tolerably healthy are too bouncing by half, going in for hunting and such-like amusements till they grow blowsy and fat, and coarse as tom-boys or grooms. They can never hit the juste milieu. Well!" and he rose from the breakfast-table. ...

— Thelma • Marie Corelli

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