2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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. (Sculp.) 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
biscuit
n 1: small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
2: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
British term) [syn: {cookie}, {cooky}]
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