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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

... a moment in conscientious thought. "No, Mr. Kong," she replied, with a most commendable sigh of unfeigned regret, "I can't say that we do. I guess it's because we're too new. Mine, now, only go back two generations, and they were mostly in lard. If they were old and baronial it might be different, but I can't imagine myself worshipping an ancestor in lard." (This doubtless refers to some barbaric method ...

— The Mirror of Kong Ho • Ernest Bramah

... Lard and substitutes therefor. Bacon hams. Butter and cheese. Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing. Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing free schedule. Leather and the manufactures thereof, ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison

... mild ointment will dispose such an ulcer to heal, and recourse must be had at once to a caustic application. A scruple of the nitrate of silver must be rubbed down with an ounce of lard, and a little of it applied twice every day, and rubbed tolerably hard into the sore until it assumes a healthy appearance; it may then be dressed with ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

... in quantities to stagger the imagination of one used only to private kitchens. Prunes stewed away in galvanized iron buckets; meat boiled in wash-boilers; coffee was made in fifty-pound lard tins; pies were baking in ranks of ten; mashed potatoes were handled by the shovelful; a barrel of flour was used every two and a half days in this camp of hungry hard-working men. It took a good man to plan and organize; and a good man Corrigan was. His ...

— The Adventures of Bobby Orde • Stewart Edward White

... was no window and no floor. All the light came in through the doorway and a small hole in the roof, meant to admit the stove pipe. Hanging on the cross beams were several covered pails containing rice, beans, flour, lard, and near them a little cotton bag with a few candles in it. Thrown across a beam was a piece of deerskin dressed for making or mending snow-shoes; and on a nail at the farther end was a little seal-skin pouch in which were found needle, thread, and a few buttons. A bunk was built into the side ...

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