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Definition of Biscuit

1. Noun. Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda.

2. Noun. Any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term).

Definition of Biscuit

1. n. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

Definition of Biscuit

1. Noun. A cookie. ¹

2. Noun. (chiefly North America) A small bread usually made with baking soda, similar in texture to a scone, but usually not sweet. ¹

3. Noun. A form of unglazed earthenware. ¹

4. Noun. (context: nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships; made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked; often infested with weevils. ¹

5. Noun. A light brown colour. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Biscuit

1. a small cake of shortened bread [n -S] : BISCUITY [adj]

Medical Definition of Biscuit

1. 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. 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. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biscuit

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biscotins biscotti biscottis biscotto biscriptal biscuit (current term) biscuit-bake biscuit-firing biscuit bite biscuiteer

biscuitless biscuitlike biscuits biscuity biscutate bisdequalinium chloride bise bisecant bisecants bisect

Literary usage of Biscuit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and by John Ramsay McCulloch (1842)
"Section '2. enacts, that fine wheat flour and biscuit may be deposited In ... Section 8. enacts, that persons making deposits of flour and biscuit be ..."

2. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"Great difficulty is experienced in procuring early statistics in relation to the biscuit business, as those who were engaged in it during the first part of ..."

3. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"Milk biscuit. Rub half a pound of butter into three and a half pounds of flour, and add half a pint of yeast; let it stand five minutes, then mix it pretty ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1906)
"The subject of biscuit loss, which it at all times of some, ... biscuit Cracks. In order that there may be no confusion of terms, I wish to state definitely ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... the sanctity of the workmen might enhance the intrinsic value of the work. of bread, or rather biscuit,(46) which they divided into two frugal repasts, ..."

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