lace-winged

(las’wingd), a. Having gauzy ete. wings veined or netted like lace.—Lace-winged lacing (1a’sing), n. [Verbal n. of lace, v.] 1. fly, a neuropterous insect of the family Hemerobiide, and The act of binding or fastening with a cord or especially of the genus Chrysopa, whose larve are called thong pa ed backward and forward through aphis-lions from their habit of preying upon plant-lice. holes or around buttons or hooks.—2. A method The eggs are laid in groups, each at the end of a long footstalk. The larve are entirely carnivorous, sucking of fastening the adjoining ends of a belt by the the juices of plant-lice through their long jaws. They use of a thong or lace.—3. In bookbinding, the transform to pupex within dense whitish globular cocoons, fastening of the boards of a book to its back by from which the imago escapes through a circular hole cut by the pupa. See cut under Chrysopa. cords which pa around the sewed threads of lace-woman (las’wim“an), ». A woman who the signatures and through holes pierced in the deals in laces. boards.—4, A cord used in drawing tight or Let in fastening; laces in general.—5. Nauwt., the cord No lace-woman that brings French masks, or rope used to lace a sail to a gaff, yard, or And cut-works, B. Jonson, Devil is an A , ii, 1. boom, or to fasten two parts of a sail or an awnlachel}, v. A Middle English form of latch1. ing together.—6. In ship-building, a piece of lac he* (lach), m. A Middle English form of _compa or knee-timber fitted and bolted to latch, the back of the figurehead and to its support in lac he*+, a. An obsolete form of lash?. piece, called the knee of the head. Also calle laches! (lach’ez),. [« ME. lache e, lacche e, lace-piece.—'7. In mining, same as lagging, 3.— lacinia