'Biscuit' definitions:
Definition of 'biscuit'
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Definition of 'Biscuit'
From: GCIDE
- Biscuit \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. [1913 Webster]
- According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. --Gibbon. [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. (Sculp.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'biscuit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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