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.