Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LACE, v.t.

1. To fasten with a string through eyelet holes. When Jenny's stays are newly laced. – Prior.
2. To adorn with lace; as, cloth laced with silver. – Shak.
3. To embellish with variegations or stripes. Look, love, what envious streaks / Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. – Shak.
4. To beat; to lash; [probably to make stripes on.] I'll lace your coat for ye. – L'Estrange.