Definition of "interline" verb third-person singular simple present interlines , present participle interlining , simple past and past participle interlined
To write or insert between lines already written or printed , as for addition or correction . quotations examples
Quotations Then riſing with Aurora ’s Light , / The Muse invok ’d , ſit down to write ; / Blot out , correct , inſert , refine , / Enlarge , diminiſh , interline ; / Be mindful , when Invention fails , / To ſcratch your Head , and bite your Nails .
1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin, London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], pages 7–8, lines 85–90
To imprint or mark with lines . quotations examples
Quotations For each contracted frown , / A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow : / Spend but one hour in frowns , and I shall look / Like to a beldam of one hundred years .
c. 1600 (date written; first published 1657), attributed to Thomas Dekker, John Day, William Houghton, Lust’s Dominion: Or, The Lascivious Queen. A Tragedie, London: […] J. Chappell, Jun. […], published 1818, Act I, scene i, page 3