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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.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [Obs.] Tusser., n. Etym: [F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.]

A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. Caraways, or biscuits, or some other [comfits]. Cogan.

A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

Prepared as a confection. The biscuit or confectionary plum. Cowper.

A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.

To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. [Obs.]marzipan Shak.

Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] Chaucer. Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit. -- Meat earth (Mining), vegetable mold. Raymond. -- Meat fly. (Zoöl.) See Flesh fly, under Flesh. -- Meat offering (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil. -- To go to meat, to go to a meal.…

A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.

t used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats. -- Pilot engine, a locomotive going in advance of a train to make sure that the way is clear. -- Pilot fish. (Zoöl) (a) A pelagic carangoid fish (Naucrates d…

k, and consisting essentially of the unaltered proteid of milk. It is also used in making biscuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance.

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

Remaining; left; left over; refuse. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. Shak.

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.