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Lacing

noun
1.
A small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage.
2.
A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).  Synonym: lace.
3.
The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.  Synonyms: beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking.


Lace

verb
(past & past part. laced; pres. part. lacing)
1.
Spin,wind, or twist together.  Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, twine.  "Twine the threads into a rope" , "Intertwined hearts"
2.
Make by braiding or interlacing.  Synonyms: braid, plait.
3.
Do lacework.
4.
Draw through eyes or holes.  Synonym: lace up.
5.
Add alcohol to (beverages).  Synonyms: fortify, spike.



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"Lacing" Quotes from Famous Books



... you think me strong enough? You should see me lacing up my mistress. There's many a ...
— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al
... few of the party remembered the Japanese custom of removing the outer foot-gear, when entering their temples, and came prepared with easily removed pumps. They had a good laugh at the row of dignified, badge-bedecked representatives, solemnly lacing up their shoes, while sitting on the stoop about a foot from the ground, with the blazing sun ...
— The Log of the Empire State • Geneve L.A. Shaffer
... your two shoes together have a total of at least 20 holes or hooks to be used in the test, i. e., which do not have the lace in them when you begin. Allow 1 point for each hole or hook, i. e., 20 points, finish the lacing in 2 minutes, in any case stop when the 2 minutes is up; then take off 2 points for each one that is wrongly laced, or not laced. Thus: Supposing 4 are wrong, take off 4 times 2 from 20, and your blindfold lacing number is 12; if the number wrong was 10 ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... Lacing and tracing the path of the evening breeze, Blazing and raising a light on the breaking seas; Ebbing and flowing, an ocean of liquid light, Finding and showing the reefs in the ...
— The Last West and Paolo's Virginia • G. B. Warren
... inner lobe of second maxilla, corresponding to the lacing of first maxilla: loosely used as a synonym for tongue: especially applied to the coiled structure of ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith


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