[f. LACE v. + -ED1.]
† 1. Of a plant: Entwined with a climbing plant.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helth, III. v. (1541), 60 b. Lased sauerie.
1551. Turner, Herbal, 90. We call in england sauery that hath doder growinge on it, laced sauery: and tyme that hath the same, laced tyme.
1555. Eden, Decades, 200. The herbe which we caule lased sauery.
1640. Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 1740.
2. Of shoes, etc.: Made to be fastened or tightened with laces.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., I. xxiii. 124. A pair of laced Stockings.
1697. Lond. Gaz., No. 3275/4. One pair of new Laced Shooes.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflamm., 447. The laced stocking was much used, and is particularly recommended by Wiseman.
1874. T. Hardy, Far fr. Madding Crowd, viii. He wore breeches and the laced-up shoes called ankle-jacks.
3. Ornamented or trimmed with lace: a. with edgings, trimmings or lappets of lace. b. with braids or cords of gold or silver lace.
a. 1668. Davenant, Man’s the Master, II. i. Wks. 1874, V. 23. I left your lac’d linen drying on a line.
1673. E. Brown, Trav. Germ., etc. (1677), 112. Two Feather-Beds, with a neat laced sheet spread over.
1720. Lond. Gaz., No. 5881/3. A fine Valencia grounded laced Suit of Night Clothes.
1765. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), III. 221. They are commonly distinguished by the fashion of that time, laced cravats.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, I. 82. Mother bends her laced and feathered head in distant signal from the table top.
b. 1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., V. v. (1848), 314. A Lac’d, or an Imbroider’d suit … would, now … make a Man look … like … a player.
1786. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, 12 Aug. We met … such superfine men in laced liveries, that we attempted not to question them.
1841. Catlin, N. Amer. Indians (1844), II. lv. 198. His coat … was a laced frock.
4. Diversified with streaks of color. Of birds: Having on the edge of the feathers a color different from that of the general surface. Of a flower: Marked with streaks of color.
1834. Mudie, Brit. Birds, I. 74. The principal ones [fancy pigeons] are … the Jacobine, the Laced [etc.].
1867. Tegetmeier, Pigeons, xxiii. 177. Examples of very good laced Fantails.
1882. Garden, 7 Oct., 312/2. The edged, tipped, or laced Dahlias require a good deal of shading.
1888. Poultry, 27 July, 377. Hen nicely laced on breast.
† 5. Laced mutton (slang): a strumpet. Obs.
Mutton was used alone in the same sense. The adj. may mean ‘wearing a bodice,’ possibly with a pun on the culinary sense LACE v. 8, though the latter is not recorded so early.
1578. Whetstone, Promos & Cass., I. iii. B iij. And I smealt, he lou’d lase mutton well.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., I. i. 102. I (a lost-Mutton) gaue your Letter to her (a lac’d-Mutton) and she (a lac’d-Mutton) gaue mee (a lost-Mutton) nothing for my labour.
1599. N. Breton, Phisition’s Let. You may … eat of a little warm mutton, but take heede it be not Laced, for that is ill for a sicke body.
1607. R. C., trans. H. Stephen’s World of Wonders, 167. The diuell take all those maried villains who are permitted to eate laced mutton their bellies full.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, iv. Prol. (1737), p. lxxxiii. With several coated Quails, and lac’d Mutton.
6. Of a beverage: Mixed with a small quantity of spirits. (But see quot. a. 1700; also 1687 in LACE v. 9.)
1677. Wycherley, Pl. Dealer, III. i. Prithee, captain, let’s go drink a dish of laced coffee, and talk of the times.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Lac’d Coffee, Sugar’d.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 317, ¶ 39. Mr. Nisby of opinion that laced Coffee is bad for the Head.
1819. Anderson’s Cumberld. Ball., 108. Set on kettle, Let aw teake six cups o’ leac’d tea.
1886. Illustr. Lond. News, Summer No. 14/2. He took a sip at his laced coffee.
7. Of the spokes of a bicycle: Set so as to cross one another near the hub.
1885. Cyclist, 19 Aug., 1107/2. 52in. Rudge bicycle No. 1, laced spokes.
† 8. Laced stool: ? one made with a cane or rush seat, or one with a cloth seat stretched by cords.
1649. in Bury Wills (Camden), 212. I give vnto my daughter Anna … a greene chaire and foure laced stooles.
9. Comb., as laced-jacketed, -waistcoated adjs.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, Wks. 1883, VII. 495. A couple of brocaded or laced-waistcoated toupets.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xlviii. The laced-jacketed band of the Life Guards.
