Lar vs Lard - What's the difference?
lar | lard |
A household or ancestral god in ancient Rome
*
The lar gibbon.
Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
(obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
(cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
to smear with fat or lard
* Somerville
to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
To fatten; to enrich.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To grow fat.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
* Dryden
As an abbreviation lar
is (liquid argon).As a proper noun lard is
.lar
English
Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
(Lares) The first sense is most often used in English as the capitalized plurale tantum'' Lares. It is more often pluralized lares''' as in Latin than ' lars .Anagrams
* ----lard
English
(wikipedia lard)Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
- [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
- Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
- (Shakespeare)
- Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.