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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lard \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.
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