BISCUIT

cookie, cooky, biscuit

(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes (‘biscuit’ is the British term)

biscuit

(noun) small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)

(chiefly, UK, Australia, Ireland, NZ, rare in the US) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie.

(chiefly, North America) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.

(UK) A cracker.

(nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.

A form of unglazed earthenware.

A light brown colour.

(woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.

Synonyms: dowel, finger joint, glue strip, spline

(US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

(US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.

(ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).

Usage notes

Source: Wiktionary

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Bis"cuit, n. Etym: [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. 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. (Sculp.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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