lace

noun

• 1a fine open fabric, typically one of cotton or silk, made by looping, twisting, or knitting thread in patterns and used especially for trimming garments.
• braid used for trimming, especially on military dress uniforms.

• 2 (usually laces) a cord or leather strip passed through eyelets or hooks on opposite sides of a shoe or garment and then pulled tight and fastened.

verb

• 1fasten or tighten (a shoe or garment) by tying its laces:he put the shoes on and laced them up
• (lace someone into) fasten someone into (a garment) by tightening the laces:Morris laced Bill and David into boxing gloves
• (lace something through) pass a lace or cord through (a hole).
• compress the waist of (someone) with a laced corset:Rosina laced her up tight to show off her neat, pretty waist
• [no object] (of a garment or shoe) be fastened by means of laces:the shoes laced at the front

• 2entwine or tangle (things, especially fingers) together:he laced his fingers together and sat back

• 3 (usually be laced with) add an ingredient, especially alcohol, to (a drink or dish) to enhance its flavor or strength:he gave us coffee laced with brandy figurativehis voice was laced with derision

• 4hit (something, especially a baseball) hard:he laced a double down the first-base line