a. Also 6 lattis(e)d, letticed, -uced, -ised, latized, 7 latised. [f. LATTICE sb. + -ED2.]
1. Furnished with a lattice or lattice-work.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., II. (1593), 32. Their hooves they mainely beat upon the lattisd grate.
1662. Greenhalgh, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. IV. 12. A low, long, and narrow latticed window.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, III. 2. The early sun Pour’d on the latticed cot a cheerful gleam.
a. 1845. Hood, Open Question, i. Shut the gardens! lock the latticed gate!
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, iii. A latticed screen … divided the shop from a room of about equal size.
2. Shaped or arranged like a lattice. a. gen.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 25 b. You must … harrowe it, which is don with a lettused instrument ful of teeth.
1787. Glover, Athenaid, XXVII. 108. Huge alders … shed Disparted moonlight through the lattic’d boughs.
b. Nat. Hist. Having a conformation or marking resembling lattice-work. Of plant-cells: see quot. 1877 and lattice-cell, LATTICE sb. 4. Of leaves = CANCELLATE.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 25. Her eye is … foraminulous and latticed like that of other Insects.
1816. T. Brown, Elem. Conchol., 155. Latticed, having longitudinal lines or furrows, decussate by transverse ones.
1862. Cooke, Brit. Fungi, 93. The Latticed Stinkhorn (Clathrus cancellatus).
1862. Newman, Brit. Moths (1869), 87. The Latticed Heath (Strenia clathrata).
1877. A. W. Bennett, trans. Thomé’s Bot., 49. Sieve-tubes, or bast-vessels result from the coalescence of cells standing one over another, the partition walls of which, or sieve-discs, have become perforated in the manner of a sieve…. Of similar construction are latticed cells, the partition-walls of which are not actually perforated, but only thickened in a sieve-like manner.
1885. A. S. Pennington, Brit. Zoophytes, 161. Phellia Brodricii,… ‘The Latticed Corklet.’
c. Her.
1847. Gloss. Heraldry, Lattised, Treille, or Portcullised, a pattern resembling fretty, but placed cross-ways. It may be interlaced or not.
