Word Meanings - SPIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spy; a scout. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to SPIAL)

• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• SCOUT
  A swift sailing boat. So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. Pepys.
• ESCOUT
  See HAYWARD
• BOY SCOUT
  Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest
• TRACKSCOUT
  See TRACKSCHUYT
• OUTSCOUT
  To overpower by disdain; to outface. Marston.