Found 3 items, similar to biscuit.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: biscuit biskuit
English → English (WordNet) Definition: biscuit 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Biscuit 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. [1913 Webster] According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing. [1913 Webster] 4. (Sculp.) 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. [1913 Webster]