Definition of "lard" in English

noun

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

3. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.

verb

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

2. To smear with fat or lard.

3. To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.

4. To fatten; to enrich.

5. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

6. To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.

7. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.