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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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Ba·con ¹  (bkn), Francis. First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626.

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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ba·con  (bkn)

n.

The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.

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

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bacon

Noun

1. meat from the back and sides of a pig, dried, salted, and often smoked

2. bring home the bacon Informal

a. to achieve success

b. to provide material support [Old French]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bacon - back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried cut of pork - cut of meat from a hog or pig side of bacon, flitch - salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork gammon - hind portion of a side of bacon bacon strip - a slice of bacon bacon rind - the rind of bacon Canadian bacon - from a boned strip of cured loin
	2.	Bacon - 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) Roger Bacon
	3.	Bacon - English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) 1st Baron Verulam, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans

Translations

bacon [ˈbeɪkən] n → tocino, bacon m; beicon m

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bacon [ˈbeɪkən] n → bacon m, lard m

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bacon [ˈbeɪkən] n → (Frühstücks)speck m, (Schinken)speck m

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bacon [ˈbeɪkən] n → pancetta

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bacon

n bacon [ˈbeikən]

the flesh of the back and sides of a pig, salted and dried, used as food. spek لَحْم من فَخْذ الخَنْزير бекон slanina bacon der Speck μπέικον tocino peekon گوشت باریک شده ونمک زدۀ پهلو وپشت خوک؛ بیکن pekoni bacon קוֹתלֵי חָזִיר सूअर मांस slanina angolszalonna daging punggung babi yang diasin, ham beikon pancetta affumicata ベーコン 베이컨 rūkytas/sūdytas bekonas speķis; bekons dendeng babi bacon bacon, (salt) flesk boczek, bekon bacon bacon; slănină бекон slanina prekajena slanina slanina bacon ส่วนเนื้อด้านหลังและข้างของหมูที่ใส่เกลือรมควัน domuz eti 鹹肉, 燻肉 копчена свиняча грудинка سؤر کا گوشت thịt lợn muối xông khói 咸肉, 熏肉