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noun
The abdominal fat of an animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare, transitive, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Synonyms: interlace
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To naturally intersperse (an animal's flesh or muscle) with layers of fat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Qualifier: passive voice
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
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.
Followed by with: to coat the inside of a thing with (a substance).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, obsolete, transitive
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
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.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete, transitive
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: intersperse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
Narrower terms: interleave
History
The verb is derived from Late Middle English interlarden (“to mix fat into (something)”), borrowed from Old French entrelarder (modern French entrelarder (“(cooking) to put pieces of bacon into meat, interlard; (figurative) to furnish by interspersing, adorn something all over (e.g., a text, with verses, metaphors, etc.)”)), from entre- (prefix meaning ‘in between, between’) (from Latin inter-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1entér (“between”)) + larder (“to smear with lard or fat, to lard”) (from lard (“bacon fat, lard”) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming verbs))). Lard is from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat, lard”); further etymology uncertain, probably borrowed from or related to Ancient Greek λᾱρῑνός (lārīnós, “fat, fatted”, adjective), possibly from λᾱρός (lārós, “delicious; sweet”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leh2w- (“to gain; to seize; benefit, prize”)) + -ινός (-inós) (a variant of -ῐνος (-ĭnos, suffix forming adjectives)). By surface analysis, inter- (prefix meaning ‘between’) + lard (verb). The noun is derived from Late Middle English interlarde (“abdominal fat”), from interlarden (verb) (see above).
