Backyard

A yard behind a house. Bacolor', a town of the island of Luzon, in the Philip pines, about 38 m. N.W. of Manilla. It was the capital ot the Philippines during the British invasion in 1762. Pop. about 10,000. Ba'con, n . [A. S. bac an , to bake; 0. Ger. tach an , to roast, to cook; - or Dut. bake , swine.] Salted and dried pork, made from the sides and belly of a pig; while bacon-hams are the hind-legs cured. A large quantity is exported from the U. States into Europe. For the mode of curing, see HAMS. For its properties as an article of food and importance in trade, see PORK. To save one's bacon . A vulgarism, implying the preserving one's self from hurt or harm; supposed to have originated from the care taken of this article of provision by the housewives of the olden time, to secure it from being plundered by the soldiers on the march. "O father! my sorrow will scarce save my bacon; For 'twas not that I murder'd, but that I was taken." - Prior.