Larded

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lard \Lard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Larded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Larding}.] [F. larder. See {Lard}, n.]
     1. To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp.,
        to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of,
        before roasting; as, to lard poultry.
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              And larded thighs on loaded altars laid. --Dryden.
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     2. To fatten; to enrich.
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              [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              Falstaff sweats to death.
              And lards the lean earth as he walks along. --Shak.
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     3. To smear with lard or fat.
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              In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat
              Of slaughtered brutes.                --Somerville.
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     4. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of
        improvement; to interlard. --Shak.
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              Let no alien Sedley interpose
              To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. --Dryden.
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