[ad. F. lard-er, f. lard (see LARD sb.).]
1. Cookery. (trans.) To insert small strips of bacon († or of other fat meat) in the substance of (meat, poultry, etc.) before cooking. Also absol. (Cf. INTERLARD v. 1.)
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 15756. He schar a pece out of his þe, & lardid & rostoid.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 21. Perboyle the hare and larde hit wele, Sethyn loke thou rost hir everydele.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 18. Take Conyngys … & sethe hem, oþer larde hem & Rost hem.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew., II. ii. (1664), 73. If you will Roast any Venison,… if it be lean, you shall either lard it with Mutton lard, or Pork lard.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 73. The skinn being pulled off, the flesh larded, & stuck with cloves, may be rosted.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. ii. 136. Flea your Hare, and lard it with Bacon.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 127. Take three young ducks, lard them down each side the breast.
1884. Girl’s Own Paper, June, 491/1. Nearly all lean meat may be larded with advantage.
† 2. To enrich with or as with fat; to fatten. (Cf. ENLARD.) Obs.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Feb., 110. A goodly Oake … Whilome had bene the King of the field,… And with his nuts larded many swine.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. ii. 116. Falstaffe sweates to death, and Lards the leane earth as he walkes along. Ibid. (1607), Timon, IV. iii. 12. It is the Pastour Lards the Brothers sides, The want that makes him leane.
1607. Dekker, Whore Babylon, Wks. 1873, II. 221. This lards me fat with laughter.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., Democr. to Rdr. (1651), 7. They lard their lean books with the fat of others works.
1624. Sanderson, Serm., I. 184. Thou hast larded thy leaner revenues with fat collops sacrilegiously cut out of the sides or flanks of the church.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 240. [Wheat-ears] Naturally larded with lumps of fat.
a. 1687. Cotton, Noon Quatrains, Poems (1689), 235. The lagging Ox is now unbound, From larding the new turn’d-up ground.
† b. intr. for refl. or pass.
1612. [see LARDING ppl. a.].
3. transf. To stick all over with; to cover, line or strew with. Obs. or arch.
1543. Sir J. Wallop, in State Papers, IX. 457. Divers of the Frenchemen’s horse killed, and well larded with arrows.
1590. Marlowe, Edw. II., I. iv. He weares a short Italian hooded cloake, Larded with pearle.
1602. Shaks., Ham., IV. v. 37. White his Shrow’d as the Mountaine Snow … Larded with sweet flowers.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xv. § 55. Their sides were altogether larded with arrowes.
1631. H. Shirley, Mart. Souldier, II. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., I. 190. A Soldado Cassacke of Scarlet, larded thicke with Gold Lace.
1641. Milton, Reform., II. (1851), 70. His Navall ruines that have larded our Seas.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Times, 13. A Land … Larded with Springs, and fring’d with curled Woods.
1843. Lytton, Last Bar., I. ii. Larding himself with sharp knives and bodkins.
† b. fig.
1565. Jewel, Def. Apol. (1611), 407. Yee thought it good, thus to lard the same, by a proper Parenthesis.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. conc. Relig., III. iii. 362. His gross follies wherewith he hath larded and strewed it.
1687. Settle, Refl. Dryden, 81. But to lard his gross oversights with some more pardonable mistakes.
4. To intersperse or garnish (speech or writing) with particular words, expressions, ideas, etc.; to interlard.
1549. Compl. Scot., Prol. to Rdr. 16. I thocht it nocht necessair til hef fardit ande lardit this tracteit vitht exquisite termis.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 53. They say, the Lirick, is larded with passionate Sonnets.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., IV. vi. 14. The mirth whereof, so larded with my matter, That neither (singly) can be manifested Without the shew of both. Ibid. (1602), Ham., V. ii. 20. An exact command, Larded with many seuerall sorts of reason.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, xxiv. Monkes began to lard the lives of their Saints with lies.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm., Wks. 1716, I. 158. How mean a skill to lard every sentence with an oath.
1702. Eng. Theophrast., 52. A few modish lewd words to lard his Discourse with.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1847), I. xii. 404. Lord Egmont … always larded … his speeches with speculative topics of government.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., x. Unable to refrain from larding them with interjections of surprise.
1837. Howitt, Rur. Life (1862), I. iv. 39. Their conversation was larded and illustrated with the phraseology of their own favourite pursuit.
5. To smear or cover with lard or fat; to grease. rare.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 436. Vp walle hit euery side In lyke maner, eek larde it.
1740. Somerville, Hobbinol, II. 306. His Buff Doublet, larded o’er with Fat Of slaughter’d Brutes.
1842. Tennyson, Will Waterproof, xxviii. Old boxes, larded with the steam Of thirty thousand dinners.
† 6. intr. To ooze with lard or fat. Obs. rare.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1650), 161. His whole body larded and distilled much like unto … melting wax.
7. trans. To adulterate with lard.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 20 Sept., 3/1. The Mahommedans fear that their ghee may be larded.
