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Definition of biscuit :
1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
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. A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
4. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
Synonyms:
cake, cake mix, cookie, blini, baking sheet, cooky, brownie, corn pone, breadcrumbs, chocolate chip cookie, brioche, Christmas cake, cone, cheesecake
bread (part of speech: noun)
flapjack, rusk, taco, pumpernickel, bread, sweet roll, pita bread, cracker, baguette, croutons, rye bread, waffle, zwieback, breakfast roll, loaf, white bread, crust, donut, sliced bread, crumb, scone, croissant, griddlecake, muffin, whole grain bread, dumpling, pancake, dough, bun, banana bread, yeast, sweet bun, whole wheat bread, flour, bagel, bread stick, roll, brown bread, corn bread, hard roll, tortilla, raisin bread
colors (part of speech: noun)
blue, black, bronze, buff, aquamarine, blackness, aqua, apricot
roll (part of speech: verb)
pilot, soda, baking powder, quick bread, raised, cream, wafer, hot, ship, rolled, sea, Brussels
brown (part of speech: adjective)
cafe au lait, walnut, acorn, brunette, tawny, coffee, dun, chocolate, partridge, cocoa, sepia, burnt almond, copper, chestnut, auburn, fawn, drab, khaki, nut brown, tan, hazel, cinnamon, toast, brown, coconut, umber
Usage examples:
- That is the free American biscuit. - "Home Fires in France", Dorothy Canfield.
- " Nothing ever tasted so good to me," said he, leaning on his elbow and spreading a crisp biscuit with a layer of cheese. - "Red Pepper Burns", Grace S. Richmond.
- Fritzing had found no one in the parlour but Tussie clasping an immense biscuit- tin in his arms, with a face so tragic that Fritzing thought something terrible must have happened. - "The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight", Elizabeth von Arnim.