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• Chaw

  ·vt The <<Jaw>>. II. Chaw ·vt As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid. III. Chaw ·v...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to chaw

  (Saxon, ceowan; German, kawen.) To champ between the teeth; to masticate; to chew.--Johnson. Webster...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• chaw

  See quid. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bacon

  ·noun The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bacon

  He has saved his bacon; he has escaped. He has a good voice to beg bacon; a saying in ridicule of a ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bacon

  To save one's bacon. A vulgar expression, meaning to save one's flesh from injury, to preserve one's...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• to chaw up

  To use up; demolish. I heerd Tom Jones swar he'd chaw me up, if an inch of me was found in them dig...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, and Viscount St. Alban's

  (1561-1626) Philosopher and statesman, was the youngest s. of Sir Nicholas B., Lord Keeper, by his ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Bacon, Roger

  (1214?-1294) Philosopher, studied at Oxford and Paris. His scientific acquirements, regarded in tha...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Bacon House

  In Noble Street on the boundary of Aldersgate Ward Within. Formerly called Shelly House, as of old b...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bacon-faced

  Full-faced. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bacon fed

  Fat, greasy. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flick-a-bacon

  a flitch of bacon. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• bacon, to save

  This is an old shore-saw, adopted in nautical phraseology for expressing "to escape," but generally ...

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