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Found 1 definition: biscuit.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun biscuit has 2 senses

1. biscuit(n = noun.food) - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda;
is a kind of quick bread
has particulars: rolled biscuit, drop biscuit, baking-powder biscuit, buttermilk biscuit, soda biscuit, hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit

2. biscuit(n = noun.food) cookie, cooky - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term);
is a kind of cake
has particulars: tea biscuit, teacake, dog biscuit, butter cookie, spice cookie, almond cookie, almond crescent, brownie, ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap, snap, macaroon, kiss, ladyfinger, anise cookie, molasses cookie, oreo, oreo cookie, raisin-nut cookie, refrigerator cookie, raisin cookie, fruit bar, sugar cookie, oatmeal cookie, chocolate chip cookie, toll house cookie, fortune cookie, gingerbread man, wafer, granola bar

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

biscuit, 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. [1913 Webster]
"According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing. [1913 Webster]

4. A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. [1913 Webster]

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.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

biscuit, n. & adj.
--n.
1 Brit. a small unleavened cake, usu. flat and crisp and often sweet.
2 fired unglazed pottery.
3 a light brown colour.
--adj. biscuit-coloured.

Etymology:
ME f. OF bescoit etc. ult. f. L bis twice + coctus past part. of coquere cook