lard press

A pre in which cooked lard is pre ed from the cracklings. lard-renderer, subst . A tank-boiler or ve el in which cut lard is cooked to obtain the clear fat apart from the membrane and watery portions. lard-stone, s . Min.: A popular name for Agalmatolite. lard, v. t. & i. [Fr. larder, from lard =lard.] A. Transitive: *1. To stuff with the flesh of swine. "The blood of oxen, goats, and ruddy wine, And larded thighs on loaded altars laid."" Dryden: Homer's Iliad, i. 63 *2. To fatten. "It is the pasture lards the brother's sides." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, iv. 3. 3. To cover or smear with lard. "Terribly gay In his buff doublet, larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes."- Somervile : Hobbinol. *4. To enrich; to make rich or fertile. "Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , ii. 2. 5. To mix with something else; to interlard. "To what form, but that he is, should wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit, turn him to?" Shakesp .: Troilus and Cre ida , v. 1. *B. In trans.: To grow fat; to fatten. lar-da-ce-in, s . A peculiar abnormal infiltration of an amyloid character occurring in the spleen, liver, . It gives a blue reaction with iodine and sulphuric acid.