Biscuit
English Meaning
A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
- A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
- Chiefly British A thin, crisp cracker.
- Chiefly British A cookie.
- A pale brown.
- Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque2.