inlace

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ lace. Compare Old English enlacen (“to entangle, involve”), Old French enlacier, French enlacer. See lace, and compare enlace.

Verb

inlace (third-person singular simple present inlaces, present participle inlacing, simple past and past participle inlaced)

1. To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace.
   • 1614, Phineas Fletcher, Sicelides:

     O let these armes inlace thee

2. To enlace.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inlace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Celina, NELIAC, alcine, ancile