interlarding

Verb

interlard (third-person singular simple present interlards, present participle interlarding, simple past and past participle interlarded)

1. (figuratively, transitive) 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.
   • Near-synonym: interlace

   Synonyms:

   interlace

2. (obsolete, transitive, passive voice) To naturally intersperse (an animal's flesh or muscle) with layers of fat.
   • 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.1622, Michael Drayton, “The Sixe and Twentieth Song”, in The Second Part, or A Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song. […], London: […] Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn...
3. (obsolete, transitive) 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.
   • 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.1531 March 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), [Antonio de Guevara], “The Answere of M[arcus Aurelius] Themperour, whan Faustine His Wife Demaunded the Key of His Study”, in John Bourcher knyghte...
   1. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) Followed by with: to coat the inside of a thing with (a substance).
      • [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...1632, William Lithgow, “The Fifth Part”, in The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Aduentures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Trauyles, from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes...
   2. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) 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.
      • 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...1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXIV.] Of 366 Excellent Peeces of Worke in Brasse, and as Many Cunning Artificers in that Kind.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The...

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