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ba·con       [bey-kuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the back and sides of the hog, salted and dried or smoked, usually sliced thin and fried for food.
2.Also called white bacon. South Midland and Southern U.S. pork cured in brine; salt pork.
—Idioms
3.bring home the bacon,
a.to provide for material needs; earn a living.
b.to accomplish a task; be successful or victorious: Our governor went to Washington to appeal for disaster relief and brought home the bacon—$40 million.
4.save one's bacon, Informal. to allow one to accomplish a desired end; spare one from injury or loss: Quick thinking saved our bacon.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME bacoun < AF; OF bacon < Gmc *bakōn- (OHG bacho back, ham, bacon) deriv. of *baka- back1; cf. MD bake bacon]
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Ba·con       [bey-kuhn] Pronunciation Key
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1.Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
2.Francis, 1910–92, English painter, born in Ireland.
3.Henry, 1866–1924, U.S. architect.
4.Nathaniel, 1647–76, American colonist, born in England: leader of a rebellion in Virginia 1676.
5.Roger (“The Admirable Doctor”), 1214?–94?, English philosopher and scientist.
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ba·con       (bā'kən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.


[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

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Ba·con 1       (bā'kən)  Pronunciation Key 
English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.

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Bacon 2, Francis 1909-1992.  
Irish-born British painter best known for his portraits in which subjects are distorted and invested with feelings of terror.

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Bacon, Nathaniel 1647-1676.  
English-born American colonist who led Bacon's Rebellion (1676), in which a group of frontiersmen captured and burned Jamestown in an attempt to gain reforms and greater participation in the government of Virginia.

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Bacon, Roger Known as "Doctor Mirabilis." 1214?-1292.  
English friar, scientist, and philosopher whose Opus Majus (1267) argued that Christian studies should encompass the sciences.

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bacon 
c.1330, "meat from the back and sides of a pig" (originally either fresh or cured), from O.Fr. bacon, from P.Gmc. *bakkon "back meat" (cf. O.H.G. bahho, O.Du. baken "bacon"). Slang phrase bring home the bacon first recorded 1908.

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bacon

noun
1. back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried 
2. 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. English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) 

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bacon

see bring home the bacon; save one's bacon.


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Bacon       (bā'kən)  Pronunciation Key 
English scientist and philosopher who is noted for the wide range of his knowledge and writing on scientific topics. Bacon pioneered the idea that mathematics is fundamental to science and that experimentation is essential to test scientific theories.

Our Living Language  : Roger Bacon was something of a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance. Over the course of his long life, his energetic research would lead him to study everything from languages to mathematics to optics. He is most remembered for his insistence on the importance of pursuing fruitful lines of scientific research through experimentation. His writings describe countless experiments; while the majority were probably never performed by him, the profusion alone of experimental ideas is nothing short of astounding. His own laboratory work dealt primarily with alchemy, optics, and mechanics. He was among the first to apply geometric and mathematical principles to problems in optics and the behavior of light, allowing him to make important observations on reflection and refraction. His interest in mechanics led him to describe flying machines and other devices that had not yet been invented. He was the first person in the West to come up with a recipe for gunpowder, and he suggested reforms to the calendar, which would ultimately be implemented hundreds of years later. His novel ways of pursuing knowledge were sometimes viewed with suspicion, resulting at one time in imprisonment; but he bravely resisted all strictures on his intellectual life, even when that meant having to write and work in secret.

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Bacon County, GA (county, FIPS 5) Location: 31.55677 N, 82.45115 W
Population (1990): 9566 (3859 housing units)
Area: 738.1 sq km (land), 2.5 sq km (water)

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Bacon

Ba"con\, n. [OF. bacon, fr. OHG. bacho, bahho, flitch of bacon, ham; akin to E. back. Cf. Back the back side.] The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

Bacon beetle (Zo["o]l.), 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. [Colloq.]

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