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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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