Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The white solid or semisolid rendered fat of a hog.
- v. To cover or coat with lard or a similar fat.
- v. To insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.
- v. To enrich or lace heavily with extra material; embellish: larded the report with quotations.
- v. To fill throughout; inject: "The history of Sicily was larded with treachery” ( Mario Puzo).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fat of swine; bacon; pork.
- n. The fat of swine after being separated from the flesh and membranes by the process of rendering; the clarified semi-solid oil of hogs' fat. It is a very important article of commerce, being used for many culinary and industrial purposes, in pharmacy as the basis of ointments and cerates, etc. See
lard-oil . - To stuff with bacon or pork; introduce thin pieces of salt pork, ham, or bacon into the substance of (a joint of meat) before cooking, in order to improve its flavor.
- Hence To intersperse with something by way of improvement or ornamentation; enrich; garnish; interlard.
- To pierce as in the operation of larding.
- To apply lard or grease to; baste; grease; besmear.
- To fatten.
- To grow fat.
Wiktionary
- n. fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy
- n. fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork
- v. to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
- v. to smear with fat or lard
- v. to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Bacon; the flesh of swine.
- n. The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.
- v. To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting.
- v. To fatten; to enrich.
- v. To smear with lard or fat.
- v. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
- v. To grow fat.
WordNet 3.0
- v. prepare or cook with lard
- n. soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
- v. add details to
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French larde, from Latin lārdum.
Examples
“So when you eat pie or hot biscuit, in which animal lard is used, _you eat raw animal lard_.”
“The word lard has become this generally derogatory term associated with fat and disgustingness," says Dan Pashman who hosts a food podcast called The Sporkful.”
“Be sure to try tasajo (delicious grilled beef, which might be the meat in Anónimo's photograph), and a tlayuda con asiento (a great big crisp tortilla spread with what's on the bottom of the pot after lard is rendered and strained -- it's marvelous).”
“The Pacific spiny lobster named for the village where it is said to have started was originally fried in lard because that was the only cooking fat available for many years, but nowadays there are other alternatives.”
“FYI bacteria cannot live in lard/grease [which is what seasons it].”
“I also swapped a healthier canola oil for the lard (and let's face it, lard is just icky).”
“Jocelyn: McAuliflower said ... just gotta say - at least lard is wholistic.”
“Here they want you to taste the bean, not the lard, which is ... different.”
“The flesh of the manatee is excellent, superior even to that of pork, and the oil furnished by its lard, which is three inches thick, is a product of great value.”
“This will produce what is called lard, and will serve for making lard cakes, pie or pudding crusts, and also for general cooking purposes, instead of butter, etc.No. 37.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lard’.
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Old Pharmacy, etc.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
There. I think I've convinced myself.
(Of course...asafetida, Cinchona, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark, mithridate, aqua, bark, lard, electuary, gentian, diatessaron, myrrh and 100 more...
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 185 more...
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, and the Left...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
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Gifts I do not wish to receive
single glove, single sock, rubber chainsaw, subscription to i..., submarine screen ..., rubber chicken soup, swine flu, burnt offering, stage whisper, stone treadmill, 22-volume paperba..., tortoiseshell win... and 61 more...
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Ugliest Sounding Words
List words that sound ugly, regardless of meaning
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funnier in BrE
Words that sound funny when British English speakers say them, or that are particular to dialects of BrE.

chained_bear All I know is, reading that quote again makes me crave homemade fried chicken. Jun 8, 2009
yarb There's an old saying where I'm from - you can't have too much lard.
Perhaps not literally true. Jun 8, 2009
chained_bear "Now you could even argue that lard is good for you. As Jennifer McLagan points out in her celebrated book Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes, lard's fat is also mostly monounsaturated, which is healthier than saturated fat. And even the saturated fat in lard has a neutral effect on blood cholesterol. Not to mention that lard has a higher smoking point than other fats, allowing foods like chicken to absorb less grease when fried in it. And, of course, fat in general has its upsides. The body converts it to fuel, and it helps absorb nutrients, particularly calcium and vitamins."
—Regina Schrambling, "Lard: After Decades of Trying, Its Moment Is Finally Here," Slate.com, June 2009
The same author does add, "Lard from the supermarket can still be pretty scary; most of it has been hydrogenated to make it last longer." Jun 8, 2009
yarb He tucked his brother into his tunic and hurried home to put lard on his wounds.
- William Steig, The Toy Brother Sep 14, 2008