Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LARD, v.t. [Fr. larder; Arm. larda.]

1. To stuff with bacon or pork. The larded thighs on loaded altars laid. – Dryden.
2. To fatten; to enrich. Now Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth. – Shak.
3. To mix with something by way of improvement. Let no alien interpose, / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. – Dryden.