bacon

Noun

• 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)

• back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Bacon , Francis Bacon , Sir Francis Bacon , Baron Verulam , 1st Baron Verulam , Viscount St. Albans , Roger Bacon