Lard /(lärd)/

Lard

Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.]
The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.

Lard oil: an illuminating and lubricating oil expressed from lard.
Leaf lard: the internal fat of the hog, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.; also, the same melted.

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. Larding

To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.
And larded thighs on loaded altars laid.
— Dryden.
To fatten; to enrich.
[The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
— Spenser.

Falstaff sweats to death. And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
— Shak.
To smear with lard or fat.
In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes.
— Somerville.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
Let no alien Sedley interpose To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
— Dryden.

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