LARD (2)

Lard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. Larding.] [[F. larder. See Lard, n.]] 1. 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. 2. To fatten; to enrich.
with his nuts larded many a swine. Spenser. Falstaff sweats to death. And lards the lean earth as he walks along. Shak. 3. 3. To smear with lard or fat.
In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes. Somerville. 4. 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.