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Definition of Bacon

1. Noun. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried.

2. Noun. English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292).

3. Noun. English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626).

Definition of Bacon

1. n. The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

Definition of Bacon

1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹

2. Noun. Cured meat from the sides, belly(,) or back of a pig, particularly, or sometimes other animals. ¹

3. Noun. Thin slices of the above in long strips. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bacon

1. a side of a pig cured and smoked [n -S]

Medical Definition of Bacon

1. The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle, a beetle (Dermestes lardarius) which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. To save one's bacon, to save one's self or property from harm or less. Origin: OF. Bacon, fr. OHG. Bacho, bahho, flitch of bacon, ham; akin to E. Back. Cf. Back the back side. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacon

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Literary usage of Bacon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"His name was Nathaniel bacon, son of Thomas bacon of Friston Hall, Suffolk, a kinsman of the great Lord bacon.1 His mother was daughter of a Suffolk knight, ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"bacon belongs to those scientists of the Middle Ages who approached modern ... In his theological works, of which two only have been preserved, bacon also ..."

3. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"This conviction, which had been expressed by Roger bacon as early as the thirteenth century, is proclaimed in the writings of his namesake FRANCIS ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"But that Burleigh was " a leal iend " to bacon, or that Cecil ever sup- orted him ... The time ie yet to come," wrote bacon, bitterly, when as yet a young ..."

5. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1899)
"THE bacon HOG. There is no little difference of opinion at the present time as to ... The school boy would answer that it is a pig which produces bacon, ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"ABBOT, bacon and Essex (London, 1877); DIXON in British Authors, vol. ... Whether bacon was really a rationalist or a believer has been disputed. ..."

7. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1898)
"II THE bacon-SHAKESPEARE CONTROVERSY THE apparent contrast between the homeliness of Shakespeare's Stratford career and the breadth of observation and ..."

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