Spaced

ppl. a. [f. SPACE sb.¹ or v.]

  1.  Typog. Having the words separated by (a specified mode of) spacing.

1808.  Stower, Printer’s Gram., vi. 160. Not in a greater degree than a middling and thin space to a thick spaced line.

1892.  A. Oldfield, Man. Typog., ii. 20. Thin spaces … are very useful in a close-spaced line.

  2.  Set at intervals or distances; fig. measured, regulated.

1873.  F. Jenkin, Electr. & Magn., xxii. § 12. Uniformly spaced central holes serve to move the paper on at a constant speed.

1898.  Westm. Gaz., 1 April, 2/1. Between strangers…, a spaced, even a distant, courtesy is essential to develop lasting friendship.

  3.  Of braid, etc.: Woven or worked in spaces or divisions.

1882.  Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, 454/1. Spaced Braid.… The spaces or divisions into which the two patterns are severally woven are alternately thick, or close and narrow, and comparatively wide and open. Ibid., Spaced Braid Work, a variety of Modern Point Lace, but made without fancy stitches and with braids outlined with cord.