Bacon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bacon	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bacon n 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(s): Bacon, Roger Bacon English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) Synonym(s): Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]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.]