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lard | x |

As a proper noun lard

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

lard

English

(wikipedia lard)

Noun

(-)
  • Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
  • (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
  • to smear with fat or lard
  • * Somerville
    • In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
  • to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
  • To fatten; to enrich.
  • * Spenser
    • [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
  • (obsolete) To grow fat.
  • To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
    • Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----