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.
Lard \Lard\ (l[aum]rd), v. i. To grow fat. [Obs.]
Lard \Lard\ (l[aum]rd), n. [F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. (?) fattened, fat.] 1. Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.] --Dryden.
2. The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.
{Lard oil}, an illuminating and lubricating oil expressed from lard.
{Leaf lard}, the internal fat of the hog, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.; also, the same melted.
Hog \Hog\ (h[o^]g), n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. {Haggis}, {Hogget}, and {Hoggerel}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied genera of {Suid[ae]}; esp., the domesticated varieties of {Sus scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, {lard} and {pork}; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus Indicus}.
2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
{Bush hog}, {Ground hog}, etc.. See under {Bush}, {Ground}, etc.
{Hog caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See {Hawk moth}.
{Hog cholera}, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)
{Hog deer} (Zo["o]l.), the axis deer.
{Hog gum} (Bot.), West Indian tree ({Symphonia globulifera}), yielding an aromatic gum.
{Hog of wool}, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year.
{Hog peanut} (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.
{Hog plum} (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus {Spondias} ({Spondias lutea}), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
{Hog's bean} (Bot.), the plant henbane.
{Hog's bread}.(Bot.) See {Sow bread}.
{Hog's fennel}. (Bot.) See under {Fennel}.
{Mexican hog} (Zo["o]l.), the peccary.
{Water hog}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Capybara}.
Animal fats _ lard and tallow _ totaled about 1.1 billion pounds.
Keebler snacks made without tropical oils and lard should begin appearing on shelves in March, said Thomas Garvin, president and chief executive officer.
Analysts said the decline in animal products occurred as a result of lower per capita consumption of beef, eggs, whole milk, butter, lard and edible tallow.
The $2 billion was used to lard "housing" and "veterans" subsidies that will be spent in congressional districts.
Because of rations and shortages, English ice cream was fashioned from such tantalizing substances as whale lard and bacon grease.
Across town, the 250 workers who pull lard off pigs, skin off jawbones, shave bodies and mark snouts at the Swift Independent Corp. pork-packing house also have few plans.
When a tub of lard was substituted for Roy Hattersley on Have I Got News For You it was certainly funny, but there was no feeling that anybody really wanted to offend poor old Roy.
The material turned out to be lard from a car of cow hides, Weir said.
Partial hydrogenation produced the semi-solid shortenings, epitomized by P&G's Crisco, first marketed in 1911, that rapidly became a cheap, plentiful and popular substitute for lard in cooking.