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back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle (Zoöl.), 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.]…

Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

To blunt. [Obs.] To abate the edge of envy. Bacon.

written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

hren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body. Bacon.

Cleansing; purging. Bacon.

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] "An abusive treaty." Bacon.

To associate in a company; to keep company. [Obs.] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

Collected; accumulated. Bacon.

hose conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.

Acquisition; the thing gained. [R.] Bacon.

a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.

Severe or stinging; incisive. [R.] Bacon.

Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.

Something added. [R.] Bacon.

To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.

Administrator. [Obs.] Bacon.