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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Interlace  \In`ter*lace"\,  v.  t.  &  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Interlaced}; 
  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Interlacing}.]  [OE.  entrelacen  F. 
  entrelacer  See  {Inter-},  and  {Lace}.] 
  To  unite,  as  by  lacing  together;  to  insert  or  interpose  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  interlaced 
  adj  :  having  a  pattern  of  fretwork  or  latticework  [syn:  {fretted}, 
  {latticed},  {latticelike}] 

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