Biscuit: Definition and part of speech

Biscuit

  1. n. A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
  2. n. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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