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bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, Roger Bacon Definition: back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried;English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626);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);
Hyponyms: flitch, side of bacon, gammon, bacon strip, Canadian bacon
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