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lace vb.: to trim with ornamental (gold or silver) braid Ado III. iv. 20 “l-d with silver” ; fig. to streak or stripe “with” golden (or other) colour Rom. III. v. 8 “envious streaks Do the severing clouds,” Mac. II. iii. 119 “His silver skin l-'d with his golden blood,” Cym. II. ii. 22 “white and azure l-'d with blue of heaven's own tinct” ; to trick out, adorn Sonn. lxvii. 4 “That sin . . . should . . . itself with his society.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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