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lard

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CIDE DICTIONARY

lardn. [F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. () fattened, fat.].
  •  Bacon; the flesh of swine.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.  [1913 Webster]
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.
lardv. t. [F. larder. See Lard, n.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "And larded thighs on loaded altars laid."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To fatten; to enrich.  [1913 Webster]
    "[The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine."  [1913 Webster]
    "Falstaff sweats to death.
    And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  To smear with lard or fat.  [1913 Webster]
    "In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat
    Of slaughtered brutes.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
    "Let no alien Sedley interpose
    To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
    "  [1913 Webster]
lardv. i. 
     To grow fat.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lard, n. & v.
--n. the internal fat of the abdomen of pigs, esp. when rendered and clarified for use in cooking and pharmacy.
--v.tr.
1 insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat etc.) before cooking.
2 (foll. by with) embellish (talk or writing) with foreign or technical terms.

Etymology
ME f. OF lard bacon f. L lardum, laridum, rel. to Gk larinos fat

THESAURUS

lard

Haliver Oil, acculturate, adipose tissue, advance, ameliorate, amend, animal oils, anoint, bacon, beef tallow, beeswax, better, blubber, bone oil, boost, bottlenose oil, bring forward, butt, butter, butterfat, chitterlings, civilize, cochon de lait, cod-liver oil, cracklings, daub, doegling oil, dress, dripping, drippings, edify, educate, elevate, embrocate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fat, fat back, fatten, favor, fish oil, flitch, forward, foster, gammon, ghee, glycerolate, go straight, goose grease, grease, grease the wheels, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, improve, improve upon, jambon, jambonneau, lanolin, lard oil, lift, lipid, lipoma, lubricate, make an improvement, margarine, meliorate, mend, mutton tallow, nurture, oil, oleo, oleomargarine, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pomade, pork, porkpie, porpoise oil, promote, raise, refine upon, reform, salt pork, salve, seal oil, shortening, side of bacon, slick, slick on, small ham, smear, smooth the way, soap the ways, socialize, sowbelly, straighten out, suckling pig, suet, tallow, transfigure, transform, trotters, unguent, upgrade, uplift, wax, whale oil, wool fat

ROGET THESAURUS

lard

Oil

N oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber, glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine, soap, soft soap, wax, cerement, paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere, petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil, vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil, animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil, ointment, unguent, liniment, aceite, amole, Barbados tar, fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil, hydrate of amyl, ghee, heating oil, #2 oil, No, 2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, naphtha, stearin.


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