lard Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
verb prepare or cook with lard
- lard meat
verb add details to
dramatize; dramatise; embellish; blow up; pad; embroider; aggrandise; aggrandize.

F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. () fattened, fat.

Bacon; the flesh of swine. Obs. Dryden.
The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.

F. larder. See Lard, n.

imperfect & past participle Larded; present participle & verbal noun Larding

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.
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.
To smear with lard or fat.
In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes. Somerville.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard. Shak.
Let no alien Sedley interpose To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. Dryden.