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Difference Between Lard and Butter

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Lard

Lard is a semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of a pig. It is distinguished from tallow, a similar product derived from fat of cattle or sheep.

Butter

Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 80% butterfat.

Lard

Fat from the abdomen of a pig that is rendered and clarified for use in cooking.

Butter

A pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking.

Lard

Insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking
He larded the joint with garlic and anchovies

Butter

Spread (something) with butter
Lily buttered a slice of toast
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Lard

Embellish (talk or writing) with an excessive number of esoteric or technical expressions
His conversation is larded with quotations from Coleridge

Butter

A soft yellowish or whitish emulsion of butterfat, water, air, and sometimes salt, churned from milk or cream and processed for use in cooking and as a food.

Lard

The white solid or semisolid rendered fat of a hog.

Butter

A spread made from fruit, nuts, or other foods
Plum butter.
Cashew butter.

Lard

To cover or coat with lard or a similar fat.

Butter

A vegetable fat having a nearly solid consistency at ordinary temperatures.
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Lard

To insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.

Butter

Flattery.

Lard

To enrich or lace heavily with extra material; embellish
Larded the report with quotations.

Butter

To put butter on or in.

Lard

To fill throughout; inject
"The history of Sicily was larded with treachery" (Mario Puzo).

Butter

A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

Lard

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

Butter

Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
Peanut butter
Soy butter
Chocolate butter

Lard

(obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

Butter

Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

Lard

(slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.

Butter

Any specific soft substance.
Butter of antimony; butter of arsenic

Lard

(cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

Butter

A smooth plane landing.

Lard

To smear with fat or lard.

Butter

Someone who butts, or who butts in.

Lard

To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.

Butter

(transitive) To spread butter on.
Butter the toast.

Lard

To fatten; to enrich.

Butter

To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with then end of a butterknife.

Lard

To grow fat.

Butter

To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow

Lard

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

Butter

To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

Lard

Bacon; the flesh of swine.

Butter

Very smooth, very soft
That landing was total butter!

Lard

The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.

Butter

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

Lard

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.
And larded thighs on loaded altars laid.

Butter

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

Lard

To fatten; to enrich.
[The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
Falstaff sweats to death.And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

Butter

One who, or that which, butts.

Lard

To smear with lard or fat.
In his buff doublet larded o'er with fatOf slaughtered brutes.

Butter

To cover or spread with butter.
I know what's what. I know on which sideMy bread is buttered.

Lard

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
Let no alien Sedley interposeTo lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

Butter

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

Lard

To grow fat.

Butter

An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use

Lard

Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog

Butter

A fighter who strikes the opponent with his head

Lard

Prepare or cook with lard;
Lard meat

Butter

Spread butter on;
Butter bread

Lard

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