INTERCALATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar.

2.
v.

To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular series of rocks. Beds of fresh-water shells . . . are intercalated and interstratified with the shale. Mantell.