Lacing

lacing
    n 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) [syn:
       {lace}, {lacing}]
    3: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
       [syn: {beating}, {thrashing}, {licking}, {drubbing},
       {lacing}, {trouncing}, {whacking}]
    

Lace \Lace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laced} ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Lacing}.]
   1. To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed
      through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or,
      figuratively. with anything resembling laces. --Shak.
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            When Jenny's stays are newly laced.   --Prior.
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   2. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative
      material; as, cloth laced with silver. --Shak.
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   3. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.]
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            I'll lace your coat for ye.           --L'Estrange.
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   4. To add something to (a food or beverage) so as to impart
      flavor, pungency, or some special quality; as, to lace a
      punch with alcohol; to lace the Kool-Aid with LSD. [Old
      Slang]
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   5. To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine.
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            The Gond . . . picked up a trail of the Karela, the
            vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it
            to and fro across the temple door.    --Kipling.
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Lacing \La"cing\ (l[=a]"s[i^]ng), n.
   1. The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace
      or laces.
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   2. A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for
      uniting the ends of belts.
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   3. (Naut.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the
      edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff,
      etc.
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   4. (Bridge Building) A system of bracing bars, not crossing
      each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a
      compound strut. --Waddell.
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   5. A quantity of a substance, such as an alcoholic liquor,
      added to a food or a drink; as, punch with a lacing of
      rum.
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   6. A beating, especially with a lash.
      [PJC] Laciniae
    

254 Moby Thesaurus words for "lacing":
      adulteration, anchor, arabesque, band, bandage, bar, barrette,
      basketry, basketwork, bastardizing, bastinado, basting, battery,
      beating, bellyband, belt, belting, bind, binding, binding stone,
      binding twine, bobby pin, bollard, bolt, bonder, bondstone,
      box hook, brace, braces, brad, braid, braiding, buckle, buffeting,
      button, cable, cancellation, caning, carpet tack, catch, catgut,
      chain, cinch, cincture, clamp, clasp, cleat, click, clinch, clip,
      clothespin, clubbing, contamination, corking pin,
      corporal punishment, corruption, cotter, cowhiding, cross-hatching,
      crossing-out, cudgeling, cutting, debasement, dilution, doctoring,
      dowel, drubbing, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, fabric, fast,
      fibula, filigree, fillet, fishhook, flagellation, flailing,
      flogging, fortifying, fret, fretwork, funiculus, fustigation,
      garter, girdle, girth, grab, grapnel, grappler, grappling iron,
      grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, gut, guy,
      hachure, hairpin, hamstring, hank, hasp, hatching, hawser, haywire,
      hitch, hitching post, holdfast, hook, hook and eye, horsewhipping,
      inkle, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing,
      interlocker, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing,
      intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement,
      interweaving, kevel, kingpin, knitting, lace, lacery, lacework,
      lariat, lashing, lasso, latch, latchet, lattice, latticework, lead,
      leader, ligament, line, lock, loop, mesh, meshes, meshwork,
      monofilament, moorings, nail, net, netting, network, noose, nut,
      padlock, paper clip, pawl, peg, pin, pintle, pistol-whipping,
      plaiting, plexure, plexus, pollution, raddle, rawhiding, rein,
      reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, ring, rivet,
      roller, rope, safety pin, scourging, screen, screening, screw,
      seal, sennit, setscrew, shoestring, sieve, sinew, skewer,
      slide fastener, snap, snubbing post, spanking, spike, spiking,
      splice, staple, strap, strapping, string, stripes, strop,
      stub tenon, suspenders, swingeing, switching, tack, tag, tendon,
      terret, texture, thew, thole, tholepin, thong, thrashing,
      thumbtack, tie, tie beam, tissue, toggle, tracery, treenail,
      trellis, trelliswork, trouncing, truncheoning, tug, twine, twining,
      twisting, vise, warp and woof, warpage, watering, wattle, weave,
      weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, weftage, whang, whipcord,
      whipping, wicker, wickerwork, wire, wreathing, zipper