Search the Dictionary

To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope.

Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

re to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.

The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.

A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope.

To dash between or among; to intersperse. Cowper.

The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed.

Mingled or interspersed with poppies. "Poppied corn." Keats.

Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse. Give my roan a drench. Shak.

An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. Rockstro.

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. [R.] "Her hair . . . is shed with gray." B. Jonson.

occupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum. A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter. Bentley. God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. Rogers.

concentrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses: Angiosperms, having the woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seed contained in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens). -- Seeds with single cotyle…