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That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.

To free from obstruction; to make easy. Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day. Pope.

A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. [MW10] In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered. Sir W. Scott. Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift. Tennyson.

nsive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.

ted by marketable shares having a certain equal par value. -- Stock duck (Zoöl.), the mallard. -- Stock exchange. (a) The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks.

A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See Butterine.

gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

ies. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare); -- so called because eaten by swine. -- Swine oat…

A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. Brande & C.

A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.

A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.

To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc. Shak. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Ps. xii. 6. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Ps. lxvi. 10.…

One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.

A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper. [Prov. Eng.]

A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.