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To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions. Look,how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. Shak. But these things are . . . borrowed by the…

That which is let in or inland; an inserted material.

Inserted in the corner of the eye; -- said of the antenn

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.

To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.

The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment. Ray.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.

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

The insertion of a day, or other portion of time, in a calendar.

An intervening or inserted chapter.

To throw in between; to insert; to interpose. Sir H. Wotton.

To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolt…

Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions. The English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of…

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.

Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.