Lace, vb. 1) to fasten with a string through eyelet holes: one (boot) “buckled, another --d,” Shr. III, 2, 46.
2) to adorn with a texture sewed on; properly and metaphorically: “that sin should l. itself with his society,” Sonn. 67, 4. “--d with silver,” Ado III, 4, 20. “envious streaks do l. the severing clouds,” Rom. III, 5, 8. “his silver skin --d with his golden blood,” Mcb. II, 3, 118. “white and azure --d with blue of heaven's own tinct,” Cymb. II, 2, 22.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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