grease vs lard

grease

noun
  • Animal fat in a melted or soft state. 

  • Any oily or fatty matter. 

  • Shorn but not yet cleansed wool. 

  • bribe money. 

  • Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis. 

verb
  • To kill, murder. 

  • To cause to go easily; to facilitate. 

  • To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. 

  • To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly. 

  • To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. 

  • To bribe. 

lard

noun
  • Excess fat on a person or animal. 

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

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

  • To fatten; to enrich. 

  • To smear with fat or lard. 

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

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

How often have the words grease and lard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )