Lard

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 25

is used in '. cooking; lard-oil for greasing wool, as a lubricant, and an illuminant. (lar-da/-se-in). An animal proteid, an indigestible amyloid substance, ' chiefly occurring as a pathologic infiltration into various organs, as the liver, or spleen.