Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle; 
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scone \Scone\, n.
   A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or
   oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.]
   [Scot.] --Burns.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scone
    n 1: small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds
         or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally)
         on a griddle
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "scone":
   Danish, Danish pastry, English muffin, Parker House roll,
   Yorkshire pudding, bagel, bialy, bialystoker, bun,
   clover-leaf roll, coffee cake, crescent roll, croissant, cross bun,
   crumpet, gem, hard roll, hot cross bun, kaiser roll, muffin,
   onion roll, pinwheel roll, popover, roll, soft roll