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• Lace

  ·vt To add spirits to (a beverage). II. Lace ·noun Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. ...

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• Alençon lace

  ·- ·see under <<Lace>>. ...

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• Duchesse lace

  ·add. ·- A beautiful variety of Brussels pillow lace made originally in Belgium and resembling Honit...

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• Honiton lace

  ·- A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; — so called because chiefly mad...

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• Lace-bark

  ·noun A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); — so called from the lacelike layers of its i...

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• Lace-winged

  ·adj Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies. ...

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• Macrame lace

  ·- A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture. ...

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• Pillow lace

  ·add. ·- Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow. ...

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• Pot lace

  ·add. ·- Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flow...

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• Torchon lace

  ·- a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machin...

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• Valenciennes lace

  ·- A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pa...

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• Ypres lace

  ·- Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace. ...

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• lace-bark

  Lacey-bark, or Lacewood ,n. names for Ribbonwood (q.v.). The inner bark of thetree is like fine la...

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• lace-lizard

  n. Hydrosaurus (Varanus)varius. See Goanna. 1881. F. McCoy, `Prodomus of the Natural History of Vi...

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• lace, to

  To apply a bonnet by lacing it to a sail. Also, to beat or punish with a rattan or rope's-end. Also,...

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