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To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.

The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

See Interlace.

Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.

Composed of threads. Bacon.

A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. [Obs.] Burrill.

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

Fringilline.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

. A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.

Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent. [Obs.]

Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes. -- n.

A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace. P. Fletcher.

se one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolts intersect and seem to be interlaced.…

The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.

To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. [R.] Daniel.

Like an ament, or bearing aments; amentaceous.

A slender climbing plant; dodder.

A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.