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BIS'CUIT, n. bis'kit. [L. bis, twice,and cuit, baked.]

1. A kind of bread, formed into cakes, and baked hard for seamen.

2. A cake, variously made, for the use of private families. The name, in England, is given to a composition of flour, eggs, and sugar. With us the name is given to a composition of flour and butter, made and baked in private families. But the compositions under this denomination are very various.

3. The body of an earthen vessel, in distinction from the glazing.
1913 Definition
Biscuit (biscuit)
n.((?))
Bis"cuit
[F. biscuit (cf. It. biscotto, Sp. bizcocho, Pg. biscouto
  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. 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.


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