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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lard \Lard\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Larded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Larding}.] [F. larder. See {Lard}, noun]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lard \Lard\ (l[aum]rd), verb (used without an object) To grow fat. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lard \Lard\ (l[aum]rd), noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hog \Hog\ (h[o^]g), noun [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. {Haggis}, {Hogget}, and {Hoggerel}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied genera of {Suid[ae]}; esp., the domesticated varieties of {Sus scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, {lard} and {pork}; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus Indicus}.
2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
{Bush hog}, {Ground hog}, etc.. See under {Bush}, {Ground}, etc.
{Hog caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See {Hawk moth}.
{Hog cholera}, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)
{Hog deer} (Zo["o]l.), the axis deer.
{Hog gum} (Bot.), West Indian tree ({Symphonia globulifera}), yielding an aromatic gum.
{Hog of wool}, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year.
{Hog peanut} (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.
{Hog plum} (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus {Spondias} ({Spondias lutea}), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
{Hog's bean} (Bot.), the plant henbane.
{Hog's bread}.(Bot.) See {Sow bread}.
{Hog's fennel}. (Bot.) See under {Fennel}.
{Mexican hog} (Zo["o]l.), the peccary.
{Water hog}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Capybara}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lard
noun: soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
verb
1: prepare or cook with lard; "lard meat"
2: add details to [syn: {embroider}, {pad}, {embellish}, {aggrandize}, {aggrandise}, {blow up}, {dramatize}, {dramatise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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