Laved vs Laced - What's the difference?
laved | laced |
(lave)
(obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
To draw, as water; drink in.
To give bountifully; lavish.
To run down or gutter, as a candle.
(dialectal) To hang or flap down.
(ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
* Alexander Pope
* 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
* 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
(archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
* 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
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Tainted with something, especially a drug.
(lace)
Especially of shoelaces, intertwined and neatly knotted.
As verbs the difference between laved and laced
is that laved is (lave) while laced is (lace).As an adjective laced is
tainted with something, especially a drug.laved
English
Verb
(head)lave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(lav)- (Dryden)
- In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
- the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
- The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(-)- Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
- Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...
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laced
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I don't know what it was laced with, but he passed out a minute after drinking that first beer.
Verb
(head)- Are your shoes laced up yet?
- The handkercheif was laced up into a neat little pillow.