Crossword clues for lacing
lacing
- Adding kick to
- Ice skate part
- The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- Draw through eyes or holes
- Add alcohol beverages
- A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- A small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
- Make by braiding
- Spin or twist together so as to form a cord
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lace \Lace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laced ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacing.]
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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.When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
--Prior. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.
--Shak.-
To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.]
I'll lace your coat for ye.
--L'Estrange. 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]
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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.
--Kipling.
Lacing \La"cing\ (l[=a]"s[i^]ng), n.
The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.
A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.
(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.
(Bridge Building) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.
--Waddell.A quantity of a substance, such as an alcoholic liquor, added to a food or a drink; as, punch with a lacing of rum.
A beating, especially with a lash.
Wiktionary
n. 1 That with which something is laced. 2 The tied laces that form a netlike pattern. 3 A beating as punishment; a hiding. vb. (present participle of lace English)
WordNet
n. a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
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]
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, trouncing, whacking]
Wikipedia
Lacing is the act of adding one or more substances to another. Some street drugs are commonly laced with other chemicals for various reasons, but it is most commonly done so as to bulk up the original product or to sell other, cheaper drugs in the place of something more expensive. Individuals sometimes lace their own drugs with another substance to combine or alter the physiological or psychoactive effects.
Usage examples of "lacing".
Seregil paid his price without quibbling and Maklin threw in a sword belt, showing Alec how to wrap it twice around his waist 63 and fix the lacings so that the blade hung at the proper angle against his left hip.
When Alec had pulled the lacings snug, he carefully draped a gauzy wimple over his hair, binding it with a silk cord and arranging the folds to spread gracefully over his shoulders.
And she looked up at him, her fingers lacing into the thick black hair she loved to touch, her aquamarine eyes shimmering over him with wondering satisfaction while he slowly lowered her down on to the pillows.
He changed trews and shirt, and began lacing up the white, blue-and-silver-trimmed doeskin tunic.
By the time the apple dumplings were cooked and cooling, with a crust of sugar lacing the brown pastry, she was fairly itching to put her plan into action.
The causes are tight lacing, prolapse of the abdominal organs, weakness of the supporting ligaments, and enervating habits.
The maids fussed with the lacings on the side of the overgown as she closed her burning eyes for a moment to fight for control and serenity.
Just then Gascoyne, who, with Wilkes, was busied lacing some of the armor plates with new thongs, called Myles, and he turned and entered the pavilion.
As he bent over, lacing his boots, there was a certain vulgar gusto in his movement that divided him from the reserved, watchful rest of the family.
The others were awake: Peterson lacing up his boots, McCloy shaving by flashlight at the makeshift washstand outside, Lemmon wiping the dampness from his carbine, Tester doing the same to his rare and precious SK-50, a submachine gun he had acquired because his pistol seemed an inadequate means of self-defense.
Lacing his hands behind his head, Moodie looked at his rookie for a long moment.
Feebleness of the constitution, impoverishment of the blood, a scrofulous diathesis, want of exercise, uncleanliness, tight lacing, disappointment, excessive excitement of the passions, the use of pessaries for displacement of the uterus, overwork, and taking cold, all predispose the cervical membrane to chronic ulceration.
He tapped the swagger, stick against the lacings of his rubber-soled jungle boots with a monotonous rhythm that began to irritate Craig.
She knew the bustier pressed their fullness high above the leather lacings.
With a smile toward me, he playfully extended the prodder key until it contacted the edge of the unfolded micronic lacing.