Meaning

(figurative) 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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (figurative) 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.
2. To naturally intersperse (an animal's flesh or muscle) with layers of fat.
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.
4. (obsolete, rare) The abdominal fat of an animal.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: interlace

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.

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.

Word Forms

• interlards
• interlarding
• interlarded

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