lace making tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
beating thrashing licking drubbing lacing trouncing whacking | the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows |
lace bug | small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines |
Brussels lace | fine lace with a raised or applique design |
lace | a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns |
lace lacing | a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) |
pillow lace bobbin lace | a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins, the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins |
point lace needlepoint | lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern |
shoelace shoe lace shoestring shoe string | a lace used for fastening shoes |
Valenciennes Valenciennes lace | a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns |
lacing | a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage |
dusty miller silver-lace silver lace Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum | shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down, sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum |
reed canary grass gardener's garters lady's laces ribbon grass Phalaris arundinacea | perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves, Europe and North America |
silver lace vine China fleece vine Russian vine Polygonum aubertii | twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers, western China to Russia |
lace-flower vine Alsobia dianthiflora Episcia dianthiflora | low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers, sometimes placed in genus Episcia |
wild carrot Queen Anne's lace Daucus carota | a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots |
lace fern Cheilanthes gracillima | small tufted fern of northwestern America |
spike lace fortify | add alcohol to (beverages), the punch is spiked! |
lam into tear into lace into pitch into lay into | hit violently, as in an attack |
intertwine twine entwine enlace interlace lace | spin,wind, or twist together, intertwine the ribbons, Twine the threads into a rope, intertwined hearts |
lace lace up | draw through eyes or holes, lace the shoelaces |
lace | do lacework, The Flemish women were lacing in front of the cathedral |
braid lace plait | make by braiding or interlacing, lace a tablecloth |
laced tied | closed with a lace, snugly laced shoes |
laced | edged or streaked with color, white blossoms with purple-laced petals |
c priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed straitlaced strait-laced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced victorian | exaggeratedly proper, my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts |