biscuit

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)Synonyms: cookie cooky

Webster's Dictionary (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]