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   Lard , n. [F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. () fattened, fat.]
   Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.]
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   The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.
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   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.
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   Lard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. Larding.] [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.
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   And larded thighs on loaded altars laid.
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   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.
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   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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   To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
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   Let no alien Sedley interpose
   To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
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3.       
   Lard , v. i. To grow fat. [Obs.]
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