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LARD
lard
(noun) soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
(verb) add details to
lard
(verb) prepare or cook with lard; “lard meat”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Lard
A surname.
Anagrams
• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl
Etymology
Noun
lard (countable and uncountable, plural lards)
Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
(obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
Verb
lard (third-person singular simple present lards, present participle larding, simple past and past participle larded)
(cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
To smear with fat or lard.
To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
To fatten; to enrich.
(obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
Anagrams
• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl
Source: Wiktionary
Lard, n. Etym: [F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. (
1. Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.] 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.
Lard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. Larding.] Etym: [F. larder. See Lard, n.]
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. Shak. Let no alien Sedley interpose To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. Dryden.
Lard, v. i.
Definition: To grow fat. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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