Lard — Defs

01 n. Bacon; the flesh of swine.

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.

Phrases & compounds

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.

02 v. t. 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…

imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.” — Dryden.
2.
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.
3.
To smear with lard or fat.
“In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes.” — Somerville.
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.” — Dryden.

03 v. i. To grow fat.