different between lard vs ointment

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

lard (countable and uncountable, plural lards)

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
3. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
   • 2020, Sophie Ranald, Thank You, Next: A perfect, uplifting and funny romantic comedy

     My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.

Translations

Verb

lard (third-person singular simple present lards, present participle larding, simple past and past participle larded)

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. To smear with fat or lard.
   • 1740, William Somervile, Hobbinol

     In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

3. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
4. To fatten; to enrich.

   • [The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

     Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

Derived terms

• lardaceous
• lardass
• lardball
• lardboy
• lardbucket
• lardbutt
• enlard
• larding needle
• lardlike
• lardless
• lardoon
• lardy
• leaf lard
• overlard
• tub of lard
• unlarded

Translations

Anagrams

• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl

French

Etymology

From Old French lard, from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?/

Noun

lard m (plural lards)

1. bacon
2. lard

Further reading

• “lard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m (oblique plural larz or lartz, nominative singular larz or lartz, nominative plural lard)

1. cut of meat from a pig
2. lard (fatty substance)

Descendants

• ? English: lard
• French: lard

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard n (plural larduri)

1. (regional) bacon
2. (regional) pig-fat

Declension

Synonyms

• sl?nin?

Derived terms

• l?rdos
• l?rdar

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m

1. (Puter) bacon

Synonyms

• charnpüerch
• panzetta

English

Alternative forms

• oyntment (obsolete)

Etymology

A later form (as if oint +? -ment) of Middle English oinement, borrowed from Old French oignement (“an anointing”), from oigner, oindre, ongier (“to anoint”), from Latin ung(u)? (“I anoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng?- (“to smear, anoint”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ntm(?)nt/, [?????(n)?.m??(n)?]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???n(t)m(?)nt/
• Hyphenation: oint?ment

Noun

ointment (plural ointments)

1. (medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
2. A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.

Synonyms

• salve
• unguent

Derived terms

• fly in the ointment
• ointmentlike

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cream
• inunction
• liniment
• unction
• unctuous
• unguent

Further reading

• ointment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ointment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ointment at OneLook Dictionary Search