interlard — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To embellish or vary (something) by interspersing or mixing another thing with it; also, to intersperse or mix (something) into another thing to embellish or vary it; to interweave, to mingle.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   interlace

   Examples

   Near-synonym: interlace

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   And here is a knacke of Simons art, to enterlard a tale of vntruth, with ſome parcell of truth now and then among, that ſomethings being found true, may win credit to the reſt which is vtterly falſe.

   The great ſin of Svvearing, […] doth many times ſurpriſe men unavvares into Perjury; And hovv can it be othervviſe, vvhen men uſe to interlard all their careleſs talk vvith Oaths, but that they muſt often be Perjur'd?

   But lying is a Figure in Speech, that interlards the greateſt part of my Converſation.

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   They interlard their native Drinks vvith choice / Of ſtrongeſt Brandy, yet ſcarce vvith theſe Aids / Enabl'd to prevent the ſuddain Rot / Of freezing Noſe, and quick-decaying Feet.

   She then launched forth a Volley of dreadful Oaths, interlarded vvith ſome Language, not proper to be repeated here, […]

   Either, then, the ſacred books of his nation were different from the ſacred books of our preſent Hebrew Bible; or Joſephus made no ſcruple of interlarding them with apocryphal ſtories.

   [T]he high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century interlarded his conversation, were as much the offspring of egotism and self-conceit, as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days.

   Here, over fiery "monaghahela," Jean Batiste, […] hobnobs with a stalwart leather-clad "boy," just returned from trapping on the waters of Grand River, on the western side the mountains, who interlards his mountain jargon with Spanish words picked up in Taos and California.

   [T]he names of places and horses and slangy technicalities of the turf, had interlarded the poor girl's brain-sick babble; […]

   The German student appears only too often to think that he must present his subject in the most difficult phraseology, excessively interlarded with strange words, as if he purposely would permit a glance into the treasures of his science and his knowledge only to an extremely narrow circle.

   The author has provided considerable information interlarded with some interesting quotations from contemporary accounts, but his booklet would have been much improved if the material had been arranged with more care.

2. To naturally intersperse (an animal's flesh or muscle) with layers of fat.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

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   The luſtie Salmon then, from Neptunes vvatry Realme, / VVhen as his ſeaſon ſerues, ſtemming my tydefull Streame, / […] / VVhole graine doth riſe in flakes, vvith fatneſſe interlarded, / Of many a liquoriſh lip, that highly is regarded.

3. To place pieces of bacon, fat, etc., into (lean meat) before cooking; also, to place (pieces of bacon, fat, etc.) into lean meat before cooking.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

   Fleſſhe ought not to be ſo leane, that hit abhorre: nor ſo fatte that it cloye the ſtomacke: but mene and enterlarded, to the ende that hit be ſauourye.

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   But they [serpents] loſe theyr taſte, excepte they bee prepared after a certeyne faſſhion: as doo peacockes and pheſauntes except they bee interlarded beefore they bee roſted.

4. To place pieces of bacon, fat, etc., into (lean meat) before cooking; also, to place (pieces of bacon, fat, etc.) into lean meat before cooking. Followed by with: to coat the inside of a thing with (a substance).

   Usage

   • broadly
   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

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   [T]hey haue no barrels; but great Iarres made of earth, vvherein their VVine is put. And theſe Iarres are all incloſed vvithin the ground ſaue onely their mouthes, vvhich ſtand alvvayes open like to a Source or Ciſterne; vvhoſe inſides are all interlarded vvith pitch to preſerue the earthen veſſells vnbroke a ſunder, in regard of the forcible VVine; yet making the taſte thereof vnpleaſant to liquorous lips; […]

5. To place pieces of bacon, fat, etc., into (lean meat) before cooking; also, to place (pieces of bacon, fat, etc.) into lean meat before cooking. Followed by with: to place layers or portions of a thing into (something); also, to place layers or portions of (something) into a thing; to interpolate, to interpose.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

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   Thus having raunged the moſt famous artificers diſtinctly according to their ſeverall ages, I vvill run over them againe; as many I mean as excell the reſt: and yet hovvſoever I make haſt, I vvill not overpaſſe the multitude of others, but interlard (as it vvere) and diſperſe them among, as occaſion ſhall be offered.

   [T]here are in the City [Fez, Morocco] […] more than foure hundred and threeſcore Moſques; fifty vvhereof are vvell benefited and ſuperbiouſly decored vvithin and vvithout, vvith glorious and extraordinary vvorkmanſhip, […] the vvalles and pillars being of grey Marble, interlarded vvith vvhite Alabaſter, […]

   [I]n Mankind, this Membrane [the placental cotyledon] cleavs immediately to the vvomb, […] being framed of an innumerable company of Branches, of Veins, and Arteries, among vvhich blood out of the Veſſels ſeems to be ſhed and interlarded.

Noun

1. The abdominal fat of an animal.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Rare
   • Transitive
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   My ſoule ſhal be ſatiſfyed as it wer with interlarde and fatnes, and my mouth ſhall prayſe thee with lippes full of ioye.

Verb

1. introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions

   Synonyms

   intersperse

   Broader terms

   insertencloseinclosestick input inintroduce