1. lard - Noun
2. lard - Verb
3. Lard - Proper noun
Bacon; the flesh of swine.
The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.
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.
To smear with lard or fat.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
To grow fat.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. Robert Burton
A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury. Jimmy Hoffa
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When it's time to fry the beans, you can't do without lard. Mexican Proverb
Whoever exchanges some lard for some other lard, one or the other must be rancid. Sicilian Proverb
Out of a dog there will be no lard. Hungarian Proverb