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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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