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Larded

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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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