King James Bible Dictionary

Exodus 39:31

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.