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    Lard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. Larding.] [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”.

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    And larded thighs on loaded altars laid. Dryden.

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    2. To fatten; to enrich.

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    [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine. Spenser.

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    Falstaff sweats to death.

    And lards the lean earth as he walks along. Shak.

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    3. To smear with lard or fat.

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    In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat

    Of slaughtered brutes. Somerville.

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    4. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard. Shak.

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    Let no alien Sedley interpose

    To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. Dryden.

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