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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.
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Ascham, Roger
(1515-1568) Didactic writer and scholar, s. of John A., house-steward in the family of Lord Scrope,...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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roger gough
n. an absurd name given to thetree Baloghia lucida, Endl., N.O. Euphorbiaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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
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L'Estrange, Sir Roger
(1616-1704) Journalist and pamphleteer, youngest s. of a Norfolk baronet, was probably at Camb., an...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of
(1621-1679) Statesman and dramatist, third s. of the Earl of Cork, was ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Wendover, Roger de
(d. 1236) Chronicler, a monk of St. Albans, became Prior of Belvoir, from which he was deposed for ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose