Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-TER-SPERSE'
IN-TER-SPERSE', v.t. [interspers'; L. interspersus; inter, between, and spargo, to scatter.]
To scatter or set here and there among other things; as, an able argument interspersed with flowers of rhetoric. Intersperse shrubs among trees.
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