INTERLARD • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Interlard

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Interlard v. t. (past & past part. interlarded; pres. part. interlarding)

To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. (Obs.) "Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded."

Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conversation with oaths or allusions. "The English laws... (were) mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own." "They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy."

See images of 'Interlard'

Etymology of 'Interlard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

Words linked to "Interlard" : stick in, intersperse, insert, enclose, interleave, inclose