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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            And larded thighs on loaded altars laid. --Dryden.
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   2. To fatten; to enrich.
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            [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
                                                  --Spenser.
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            Falstaff sweats to death.
            And lards the lean earth as he walks along. --Shak.
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   3. To smear with lard or fat.
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            In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat
            Of slaughtered brutes.                --Somerville.
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   4. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of
      improvement; to interlard. --Shak.
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            Let no alien Sedley interpose
            To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. --Dryden.
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