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Lard   /lɑrd/   Listen
noun
Lard  n.  
1.
Bacon; the flesh of swine. (Obs.)
2.
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.



verb
Lard  v. t.  (past & past part. larded; pres. part. larding)  
1.
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."
2.
To fatten; to enrich. "(The oak) with his nuts larded many a swine." "Falstaff sweats to death. And lards the lean earth as he walks along."
3.
To smear with lard or fat. "In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes."
4.
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."



Lard  v. i.  To grow fat. (Obs.)






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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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