'Lacing' definitions:
Definition of 'lacing'
(from WordNet)
noun
A small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
noun
A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) [syn: lace, lacing]
noun
Definition of 'Lacing'
From: GCIDE
- Lace \Lace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laced ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- When Jenny's stays are newly laced. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- I'll lace your coat for ye. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 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] [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 5. To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Lacing'
From: GCIDE
- Lacing \La"cing\ (l[=a]"s[i^]ng), n.
- 1. The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bridge Building) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut. --Waddell. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
- 6. A beating, especially with a lash. [PJC] Laciniae
Synonyms of 'lacing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adulteration,
- anchor,
- arabesque,
- band,
- bandage,
- bar,
- barrette,
- basketry,
- basketwork,
- bastardizing,
- bastinado,
- basting,
- battery,
- beating,
- bellyband,
- belt,
- belting,
- bind,
- binding,
- binding stone,
- binding twine,
- bobby pin,
- bollard,
- bolt,
- bonder,
- bondstone,
- box hook,
- brace,
- braces,
- brad,
- braid,
- braiding,
- buckle,
- buffeting,
- button,
- cable,
- cancellation,
- caning,
- carpet tack,
- catch,
- catgut,
- chain,
- cinch,
- cincture,
- clamp,
- clasp,
- cleat,
- click,
- clinch,
- clip,
- clothespin,
- clubbing,
- contamination,
- corking pin,
- corporal punishment,
- corruption,
- cotter,
- cowhiding,
- cross-hatching,
- crossing-out,
- cudgeling,
- cutting,
- debasement,
- dilution,
- doctoring,
- dowel,
- drubbing,
- enlacement,
- entwinement,
- entwining,
- fabric,
- fast,
- fibula,
- filigree,
- fillet,
- fishhook,
- flagellation,
- flailing,
- flogging,
- fortifying,
- fret,
- fretwork,
- funiculus,
- fustigation,
- garter,
- girdle,
- girth,
- grab,
- grapnel,
- grappler,
- grappling iron,
- grate,
- grating,
- grid,
- gridiron,
- grille,
- grillwork,
- gut,
- guy,
- hachure,
- hairpin,
- hamstring,
- hank,
- hasp,
- hatching,
- hawser,
- haywire,
- hitch,
- hitching post,
- holdfast,
- hook,
- hook and eye,
- horsewhipping,
- inkle,
- interknitting,
- interlacement,
- interlacery,
- interlacing,
- interlocker,
- intertexture,
- interthreading,
- intertieing,
- intertwinement,
- intertwining,
- intertwisting,
- interweavement,
- interweaving,
- kevel,
- kingpin,
- knitting,
- lace,
- lacery,
- lacework,
- lariat,
- lashing,
- lasso,
- latch,
- latchet,
- lattice,
- latticework,
- lead,
- leader,
- ligament,
- line,
- lock,
- loop,
- mesh,
- meshes,
- meshwork,
- monofilament,
- moorings,
- nail,
- net,
- netting,
- network,
- noose,
- nut,
- padlock,
- paper clip,
- pawl,
- peg,
- pin,
- pintle,
- pistol-whipping,
- plaiting,
- plexure,
- plexus,
- pollution,
- raddle,
- rawhiding,
- rein,
- reticle,
- reticulation,
- reticule,
- reticulum,
- riddle,
- ring,
- rivet,
- roller,
- rope,
- safety pin,
- scourging,
- screen,
- screening,
- screw,
- seal,
- sennit,
- setscrew,
- shoestring,
- sieve,
- sinew,
- skewer,
- slide fastener,
- snap,
- snubbing post,
- spanking,
- spike,
- spiking,
- splice,
- staple,
- strap,
- strapping,
- string,
- stripes,
- strop,
- stub tenon,
- suspenders,
- swingeing,
- switching,
- tack,
- tag,
- tendon,
- terret,
- texture,
- thew,
- thole,
- tholepin,
- thong,
- thrashing,
- thumbtack,
- tie,
- tie beam,
- tissue,
- toggle,
- tracery,
- treenail,
- trellis,
- trelliswork,
- trouncing,
- truncheoning,
- tug,
- twine,
- twining,
- twisting,
- vise,
- warp and woof,
- warpage,
- watering,
- wattle,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- webbing,
- webwork,
- weft,
- weftage,
- whang,
- whipcord,
- whipping,
- wicker,
- wickerwork,
- wire,
- wreathing,
- zipper
Words containing 'Lacing'
- Lace,
- Laced,
- lace into,
- lace up,
- Alencon lace,
- Belt lacing,
- Bobbin lace,
- Bone lace,
- Brussels lace,
- Duchesse lace,
- Gold lace,
- Hair lace,
- Honiton lace,
- Lace leather,
- Lace lizard,
- Lace paper,
- Lace piece,
- Lace pillow,
- Laced mutton,
- Laced stocking,
- Lady's laces,
- Lisle lace,
- Macrame lace,
- Pillow lace,
- Point lace,
- Pot lace,
- Sea laces,
- Seam lace,
- Silver lace,
- Thread lace,
- Torchon lace,
- Valenciennes lace,
- Warp lace,
- Yak lace,
- Ypres lace,
- blond lace,
- lace bug,
- lace fern,
- lace making,
- seaming lace,
- shoe lace,
- Lace-bark,
- Lace-winged,
- Strait-laced,
- queen anne's lace,
- silver lace vine,
- silver-lace,
- straight-laced,
- tight-laced,
- lace-flower vine,
- lace-winged fly