interlard Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet


In`ter*lard" transitive verb
Etymology
F. entrelarder. See Inter-, and Lard.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Interlarded; present participle & verbal noun Interlarding
Definitions
  1. To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. Obs.
    Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded. Drayton.
  2. Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions.
    The English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own. Sir M. Hale.
    They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.

Webster 1913