Lard

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /lɑːd/
• US IPA: /lɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Origin

From Old French lard ("bacon"), from Latin lardum, laridum ("bacon fat").

Full definition of lard

Noun

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.

Verb

1. (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
2. to smear with fat or lard
• SomervilleIn his buff doublet larded o'er with fat
  Of slaughtered brutes.
3. to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
4. To fatten; to enrich.
• Spenseroak with his nuts larded many a swine.
• ShakespeareFalstaff sweats to death,
  And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
• DrydenLet no alien Sedley interpose
  To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.