| lard | | |
| n. (food) | 1. lard | soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog. |
| ~ pig, grunter, squealer, sus scrofa, hog | domestic swine. |
| ~ edible fat | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue. |
| v. (creation) | 2. lard | prepare or cook with lard.; "lard meat" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ ready, cook, prepare, fix, make | prepare for eating by applying heat.; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" |
| v. (communication) | 3. aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad | add details to. |
| ~ glorify | cause to seem more splendid.; "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building" |
| ~ exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, magnify, overdraw | to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" |
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