Lace
Bible Usage:
- lace used 4 times.
- First Reference: Exodus 28:28
- Last Reference: Exodus 39:31
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H6616 Used 4 times
LACE, noun [Latin laqueus.]
1. A work composed of threads interwoven into a net, and worked on a pillow with spindles or pins. Fine laces are manufactured in France, Italy and England.
2. A string; a cord.
3. A snare; a gin.
4. A plaited string with which females fasten their clothes.
Doll ne'er was called to cut her lace
LACE, verb transitive
1. To fasten with a string through eyelet holes.
When Jenny's stays are newly laced -
2. To adorn with lace; as cloth laced with silver.
3. To embellish with variegations or stripes.
Look, love, what envious streaks.
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
4. To beat; to lash; [probably to make stripes on.]
I'll lace your coat for ye.
LA'CE-BARK, noun A shrub in the West Indies, the Daphue lagetto, so called from the texture of its inner bark.
LA'CED, participle passive Fastened with lace or a string; also, tricked off with lace.
Laced coffee, coffee with spirits in it.
in Greece the inhabitants of Sparta or Laced'mon, with whom the Jews claimed kindred. 1 Macc. 12.2,5,6,20,21; 14.20,23; 15.23; 2 Macc. 5.9.
LA'CEMAN, noun A man who deals in lace.
LAC'ERABLE, adjective [See Lacerate.] That may be torn.
LAC'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin lacero, to tear.] To tear; to rend; to separate a substance by violence or tearing; as, to lacerate the flesh. It is applied chiefly to the flesh, or figuratively to the heart. But sometimes it is applied to the political or civil divisions in a state.
LAC'ERATED, participle passive or adjective
1. Rent; torn.
2. In botany, having the edge variously cut into irregular segments; as a lacerated leaf.
LACERA'TION, noun The act of tearing or rending; the breach made by rending.
LAC'ERATIVE, adjective Tearing; having the power to tear; as lacerative humors.
LAC'ERTINE, adjective [Latin lacertus.] Like a lizard.
LACER'TUS, noun The girroc, a fish of the gar-fish kind; also, the lizard-fish.
LA'CEWOMAN, noun A woman who makes or sells lace.