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noun
Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
Lard mixed with crushed and strained garlic has been used as an erotic ointment.
Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
Excess fat on a person or animal.
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.
verb
To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
To smear with fat or lard.
In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
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."
To fatten; to enrich.
[The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.
Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
Larded with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the grave
Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
name
A surname.