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Biscuit

Biscuit Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Biscuit?
[n] any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
[n] small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda Synonyms | Synonyms for Biscuit: cookie | cooky Related Terms | Find terms related to Biscuit: adobe | bisque | bone | bowl | brick | brownie | Brussels biscuit | cement | ceramic ware | ceramics | china | cookie | cracker | crock | crockery | date bar | dust | enamelware | firebrick | fruit bar | ginger snap | gingerbread man | glass | graham cracker | hardtack | jug | ladyfinger | macaroon | Melba toast | mummy | parchment | pilot biscuit | porcelain | pot | pottery | pretzel | refractory | rusk | saltine | sea biscuit | ship biscuit | shortbread | sinker | soda cracker | stick | sugar cookie | tile | tiling | urn | vase | wafer | zwieback See Also | almond cookie | almond crescent | anise cookie | baking-powder biscuit | brownie | butter cookie | buttermilk biscuit | cake | chocolate chip cookie | dog biscuit | drop biscuit | fortune cookie | fruit bar | ginger nut | gingerbread man | gingersnap | granola bar | hardtack | ladyfinger | macaroon | molasses cookie | oatmeal cookie | oreo | oreo cookie | pilot biscuit | pilot bread | quick bread | raisin cookie | raisin-nut cookie | refrigerator cookie | rolled biscuit | sea biscuit | ship biscuit | soda biscuit | spice cookie | sugar cookie | tea biscuit | teacake | Toll House cookie | wafer Biscuit In Webster's Dictionary \Bis"cuit\, n. [F. biscuit (cf. It. biscotto, Sp.
bizcocho, Pg. biscouto), fr. L. bis twice + coctus, p. p. of
coquere to cook, bake. See {Cook}, and cf. {Bisque} a kind of
porcelain.]
1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet,
or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship
biscuit.
According to military practice, the bread or biscuit
of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven.
--Gibbon.
2. A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or
made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number
are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first
baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
4. (Sculp.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which
vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
{Meat biscuit}, an alimentary preparation consisting of
matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground
fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.
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