Lard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. Larding.]
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.
Let no alien Sedley interpose
To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. --Dryden.