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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."

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Etymology of 'Interlard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Interlard" Quotes from Famous Books

... sometimes something great; for I do not believe what Velleius Paterculus (for the sake of saying a pretty thing) says of Scipio, 'Qui nihil non laudandum aut fecit, aut dixit, aut sensit'. As for the reflections of historians, with which they think it necessary to interlard their histories, or at least to conclude their chapters (and which, in the French histories, are always introduced with a 'tant il est vrai', and in the English, SO TRUE IT IS), do not adopt them implicitly upon the credit of the author, but analyze them yourself, and judge whether they ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

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