biscuit

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bis=cuit

CIDE DICTIONARY

biscuit, 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.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  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]
•  Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

biscuit, n. & adj.
--n.
1 Brit. a small unleavened cake, usu. flat and crisp and often sweet.
2 fired unglazed pottery.
3 a light brown colour.
--adj. biscuit-coloured.

Etymology

ME f. OF bescoit etc. ult. f. L bis twice + coctus past part. of coquere cook

THESAURUS

biscuit

Brussels biscuit, Melba toast, adobe, bisque, bone, bowl, brick, brownie, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, cookie, cracker, crock, crockery, date bar, dust, enamelware, firebrick, fruit bar, ginger snap, gingerbread man, glass, graham cracker, hardtack, jug, ladyfinger, macaroon, mummy, parchment, pilot biscuit, porcelain, pot, pottery, pretzel, refractory, rusk, saltine, sea biscuit, ship biscuit, shortbread, sinker, soda cracker, stick, sugar cookie, tile, tiling, urn, vase, wafer, zwieback