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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hog \hog\ ho^g, n. prob. akin to e. hack to cut, and
   meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also w. hwch swine, sow,
   armor. houc'h, hoc'h. cf. haggis, hogget, and
   hoggerel.
   1. zool. a quadruped of the genus sus, and allied genera
      of suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of sus
      scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called,
      respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker;
      specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
      1913 webster

   note: the domestic hogs of siam, china, and parts of southern
         europe, are thought to have been derived from sus
         indicus.
         1913 webster

   2. a mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. low.
      1913 webster

   3. a young sheep that has not been shorn. eng.
      1913 webster

   4. naut. a rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a
      ship's bottom under water. --totten.
      1913 webster

   5. paper manuf. a device for mixing and stirring the pulp
      of which paper is made.
      1913 webster

   bush hog, ground hog, etc.. see under bush, ground,
      etc.

   hog caterpillar zool., the larva of the green grapevine
      sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three
      segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to
      make a resemblance to a hog's snout. see hawk moth.

   hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine,
      attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance
      on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a
      scarlet, purple, or black color. it is fatal in from one
      to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --law
      farmer's veter. adviser.

   hog deer zool., the axis deer.

   hog gum bot., west indian tree symphonia globulifera,
      yielding an aromatic gum.

   hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep
      of the second year.

   hog peanut bot., a kind of earth pea.

   hog plum bot., a tropical tree, of the genus spondias
      spondias lutea, with fruit somewhat resembling plums,
      but chiefly eaten by hogs. it is found in the west indies.
      

   hog's bean bot., the plant henbane.

   hog's bread.bot. see sow bread.

   hog's fennel. bot. see under fennel.

   mexican hog zool., the peccary.

   water hog. zool. see capybara.
      1913 webster
see also:
haggis hogget hoggerel sus suidae sus scrofa 
lard pork sus indicus bush hog ground hog 
bush ground hog caterpillar hawk moth hog cholera 
hog deer hog gum symphonia globulifera hog of wool hog peanut 
hog plum spondias spondias lutea hog's bean hog's bread 
sow bread hog's fennel fennel mexican hog water hog 
capybara 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      1913 webster

            and larded thighs on loaded altars laid. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to fatten; to enrich.
      1913 webster

            the oak with his nuts larded many a swine.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

            falstaff sweats to death.
            and lards the lean earth as he walks along. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to smear with lard or fat.
      1913 webster

            in his buff doublet larded o'er with fat
            of slaughtered brutes.                --somerville.
      1913 webster

   4. to mix or garnish with something, as by way of
      improvement; to interlard. --shak.
      1913 webster

            let no alien sedley interpose
            to lard with wit thy hungry epsom prose. --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
larded larding lard 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lard \lard\ laumrd, n. f., bacon, pig's fat, l. lardum,
   laridum; cf. gr. ? fattened, fat.
   1. bacon; the flesh of swine. obs. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. the fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen;
      also, this fat melted and strained.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
lard oil leaf lard 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lard \lard\ laumrd, v. i.
   to grow fat. obs.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
lard
     n : soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty
         tissue of the hog
     v 1: prepare or cook with lard; "lard meat"
     2: add details to syn: embroider, pad, embellish, aggrandize,
         aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
see also:
embroider pad embellish aggrandize aggrandise blow up 
dramatize dramatise 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
113 moby thesaurus words for "lard":
   haliver oil, acculturate, adipose tissue, advance, ameliorate,
   amend, animal oils, anoint, bacon, beef tallow, beeswax, better,
   blubber, bone oil, boost, bottlenose oil, bring forward, butt,
   butter, butterfat, chitterlings, civilize, cochon de lait,
   cod-liver oil, cracklings, daub, doegling oil, dress, dripping,
   drippings, edify, educate, elevate, embrocate, emend, enhance,
   enlighten, enrich, fat, fat back, fatten, favor, fish oil, flitch,
   forward, foster, gammon, ghee, glycerolate, go straight,
   goose grease, grease, grease the wheels, ham, ham steak, haslet,
   headcheese, improve, improve upon, jambon, jambonneau, lanolin,
   lard oil, lift, lipid, lipoma, lubricate, make an improvement,
   margarine, meliorate, mend, mutton tallow, nurture, oil, oleo,
   oleomargarine, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pomade, pork,
   porkpie, porpoise oil, promote, raise, refine upon, reform,
   salt pork, salve, seal oil, shortening, side of bacon, slick,
   slick on, small ham, smear, smooth the way, soap the ways,
   socialize, sowbelly, straighten out, suckling pig, suet, tallow,
   transfigure, transform, trotters, unguent, upgrade, uplift, wax,
   whale oil, wool fat





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