ppl. a. [f. prec. or UN-1 8.]

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  1.  a. Having a lace or laces undone or slackened. b. Not laced; with lace(s) unfastened.

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1447.  Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 277. Whan the gospel shulde be Red … evere ryht up stude she Wyth slevys unlaced.

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c. 1529.  Skelton, E. Rummyng, 133. Some wenches come vnlased, Some huswyues come vnbrased.

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 113. Her self … standing neere the halloed altars, Naked in her oane foote, with frock vnlaced aparralyd.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 308. Women … with their haire hanging loose about their eares, vngirt, vnlaced, and vnbraced.

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1827.  Pollok, Course T., VIII. 91. Unscutcheoned all,… Unlaced, uncoroneted, unbestarred.

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1871.  Figure Training, 79. I had never … been suffered to remain unlaced one instant longer than was absolutely necessary.

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  † 2.  Cut up, carved. Obs.–1

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1602.  2nd Pt. Return Parnass., IV. i. 1526. Sometimes a messe of stewd broth will do well, and an vnlac’d Rabbet is best of all.

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