lard
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hogType of edible fatSubstance of hog, pig
Verb (2)larded, larding
- prepare or cook with lard“lard meat”More general cook, fix
- add details toSynonyms: embroiderpadembellishaggrandizeaggrandiseblow updramatizedramatiseMore general overstate, exaggerateMore specific glorify
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. (…) fattened, fat.
1. Bacon; the flesh of swine. obsolete John Dryden
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.
Origin: F. larder. See Lard, noun
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.— John Dryden
2. To fatten; to enrich.
[The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.— Edmund Spenser
Falstaff sweats to death. And lards the lean earth as he walks along.— William Shakespeare
3. To smear with lard or fat.
In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes.— William Somerville
4. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard. William Shakespeare
Let no alien Sedley interpose To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.— John Dryden
To grow fat. obsolete
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54