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To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner.

very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.

One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason. Shak.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

-- Natural fats (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.

erior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc. [U.S.]

Leaf of lard. "Pig's flare." Dunglison.

ious copiousness or amplification; parade of wordas, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden.

To stuff; to lard; to farce. [R.] Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.

A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.

sp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

A buffoon. See Gollard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r (Min.), tetrahedrite. -- Gray duck (Zoöl.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. -- Gray falcon (Zoöl.) the peregrine falcon. -- Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar. -- Gray hen (Zoöl.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See Heath grouse. -- Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several…

Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.

The mallard.