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BACON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bacon" is a kind of...):
cut of pork (cut of meat from a hog or pig)
Meronyms (parts of "bacon"):
bacon rind (the rind of bacon)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bacon"):
flitch; side of bacon (salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork)
gammon (hind portion of a side of bacon)
bacon strip (a slice of bacon)
Canadian bacon (from a boned strip of cured loin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
Synonyms:
1st Baron Verulam; Bacon; Baron Verulam; Francis Bacon; Sir Francis Bacon; Viscount St. Albans
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
Bacon; Roger Bacon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
monastic; monk (a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work)
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Context examples:
I dined on what they called "robber steak"—bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks and roasted over the fire, in the simple style of the London cat's meat!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Thus he kept running on, with his mouth full of the hot bacon; thus he restored their hope and confidence, and, I more than suspect, repaired his own at the same time.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Also, he would find flour,—not much,—a piece of bacon, and some beans.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The dogs come and devour the bacon.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When you see Hordle once more, there will be no penny ale and fat bacon, but Gascon wines and baked meats every day of the seven.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a gridiron in the pantry, on which my morning rasher of bacon was cooked.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When he saw Pike, one of the new dogs, a clever malingerer and thief, slyly steal a slice of bacon when Perrault’s back was turned, he duplicated the performance the following day, getting away with the whole chunk.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
When bacon is frying they must run away from the fire and cough half an hour in the snow.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope, and drags it away behind him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Others, with slabs of bacon and joints of dried meat upon the ends of their pikes, held them up to the blaze or tore at them ravenously with their teeth.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
