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Lard   /lɑrd/   Listen
Lard

noun
1.
Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog.
verb
(past & past part. larded; pres. part. larding)
1.
Prepare or cook with lard.
2.
Add details to.  Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad.



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"Lard" Quotes from Famous Books



... poor; although we have No roofs of cedar, nor our brave Baiae, nor keep Account of such a flock of sheep, Nor bullocks fed To lard the shambles; barbles bred To kiss our hands; nor do we wish For ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... mind to me. All the while I was pinning his wrists in my grasp ... re-pinning them as he frantically wrested them loose ... swearing and heaping obscenities on my head ... all the while, I thought of those oyster-fries ... we had saved up a lard-tin full of bacon grease to fry them in ... and fry after fry had been sizzled to a rich, cracker-powdered brown in that grease ... a peculiar smell waxed in the kitchen, however ... which we could never trace to its source ... ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... the camp-fire he found Berrie at work, glowing, vigorous, laughing. Her comradeship with her father was very charming, and at the moment she was rallying him on his method of bread-mixing. "You should rub the lard into the flour," she said. "Don't be afraid to get your hands into it—after they are clean. You can't ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland
... no longer makes large demands on the pits of Nutfield. But fuller's earth has still its uses at the toilet table, and in America other uses. I have ascertained them exactly. It is employed to dehydrate certain oils with which the pork-packer adulterates lard. ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker
... to his business one cold day in May, 1803, soon after Nelson sailed from Portsmouth, and he stood with his beloved pounds of farm-house butter, bladders of lard, and new-laid eggs, and squares of cream-cheese behind him, with a broad butter-spathe of white wood in his hand, a long goose-pen tucked over his left ear, and the great copper scales hanging handy. So strict was ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore


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