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e fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained. Lard oil, an illuminating and lubricating oil expressed from lard. -- Leaf lard, the internal fat of the hog, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.; also, the same melted.

A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.

Consisting of, or resembling, lard. Lardaceous degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration.

A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked. Shak.

One in charge of the larder.

A larder. [Obs.]

A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.

A larder. [Obs.]

Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.]

pright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort. [Colloq. Souther U. S.]

A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

A stupid person; a dunce. Shak. -- a.

To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak.

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. Chaucer.

aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.