enlace

To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace

But yet I may ſay ſafely, so many wel lettred Embraudred, enlaſid together, and fettred, And ſo little learning, ſo lewdly alowed, What fault find ye herein but may be avowed?

To entangle.

The chains of command are designed to enlace various departments.

The bonds of friendship helped enlace the two communities.