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Bacon

noun

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

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). Synonym: Roger Bacon.

English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626). Synonyms: 1st Baron Verulam, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans.

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"Bacon" Quotes from Famous Books

... homemade bread and a small slice of cold bacon, which she put upon leaves in the middle of the rocky table; and gathering some violets, she placed them in bunches here and there, till the table was sweet ...

— Little Alice's Palace - or, The Sunny Heart • Anonymous

... call 'lattes,'" she said, pointing to a wooden rack which hung suspended from the ceiling and parallel to it. "As you see, the bacon ...

— The Silver Lining - A Guernsey Story • John Roussel

... something back to Noah when de flood done gone frum over de land. When Freedom come, birds change song. One say, 'don't know what you gwine to do now.' 'n other one low, 'take a lien, take a lien.' Niggers live fat den wid bacon sides. ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... recruited from a more healthful stock, or their posterity will, in time, decline into idiocy or cease from the earth. The process of degeneracy, by an infallible law, will pass from the body to the intellect; and the descendant of a Luther or a Bacon go down to the level of the most stupid boor that drives his oxen over the ...

— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various

... up, crackling and snapping, and when she followed their flight she saw the darkly nodding tops of the evergreens above her. With the fire well under way, he took the coffeepot to get water from the river, and left her to fry the bacon. The fumes of the frying meat wakened her at once, and brushed even the thought of her exhaustion from her ...

— Riders of the Silences • Max Brand

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