noun.
A machine-made lace of coarse cotton thread.
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A pillow-lace with geometric designs.
To catch, as in a net or gin; entrap; insnare.
To secure by means of a lace or laces; especially, to draw tight and close by a lace, the ends of which are then tied: as, to lace a shoe.
To adorn with lace, braid, or galloon: as, a laced waistcoat.
To cover with intersecting streaks; streak.
To mark with the lash; beat; lash.
To intermix, as coffee or other beverage, with spirits: as, a cup of coffee laced with a drop of brandy.
To interlace; intertwine.
To be fastened or tied by a lace; have a lace: as, shoes or a bandage made to lace in front.
To practise tight lacing.
noun.
A noose; snare; net.
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A cord or string used in binding or fastening; specifically, a cord or string used for drawing together opposite edges, as of a corset, a bodice, a shoe, or the like, by being passed out and in through holes and fastened.
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Hence, any ornamental cord or braid used as an edging or trimming, especially when made of gold or silver thread. See gold lace, below—4. A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, or cotton, whether twisted or plaited together or worked like embroidery, or made by a combination of these processes, or (as at the present time) by machinery.
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Spirits added to coffee or other beverage.
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A stringer; beam.
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A blaek-silk lace, in demand because made in unusually large pieces, as for shawls, fichus, etc.
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Buckingham trolly (which see, under trolly), and
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a lace having a point ground, which is peculiar in having the pattern outlined with, thicker threads, these threads being weighted by bobbins larger and heavier than the rest.
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At the presentday, the finest Brussels lace, where needle-point sprigs are applied to Brussels bubbin-ground. See application-lace, above.
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A general name for Valenciennes made in Belgium.
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Same as bobbin-lace.
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A white pillow-lace, originally made at Grammont in Belgium.
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A black-silk lace like blond-lace.
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In the seventeenth century, a guipure, more delicate in texture and varied in design than other guipures.
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At the present day, an application lace, made of sprigs of bobbin-lace sewed upon grounds often made elsewhere, especially of the Alençon réseau.
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Lace which has been whitened. See powder, v. t.
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Cut and drawn work made in convents in Spain, of patterns usually confined to simple sprigs and flowers
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A modern black silk lace with large flower patterns, mostly of Flemish make
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A modern needle-made fabric, the pattern usually in large squares.