Meaning

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
3. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
4. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
5. To smear with fat or lard.
6. To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
7. To fatten; to enrich.
8. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

Example Sentences

Lard mixed with crushed and strained garlic has been used as an erotic ointment.

My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.

In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

The first notice came from — of course — a Trump tweet, after his meeting with Barr on the question of voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election. Barr made a point of noting the topic in his resignation letter, which was larded with slavish praise for the president's accomplishments in the face of what Barr called "relentless, implacable resistance."

[The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.

Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

Larded with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the grave

Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

Word Forms

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