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What's The Definition Of Lard?

\Lard\, n. [F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. (?) fattened, fat.] 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}.] [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. To grow fat. [Obs.]