biscuitries

Noun

biscuitry (countable and uncountable, plural biscuitries)

1. (uncountable) A mass or collection of baked goods such as biscuits and bread.
   • During the war, while most other foreign colony groceries of Manhattan were destitute of exotic supplies, these Tartar-Espafioles managed to get certain shipments of their needed products from the Nile region (as date, palm and raisin sugars; lentil biscuitry; kaviar, compressed and dry; and many...1920, Coffee and Tea Industries and the Flavor Field - Volume 43, page 212
2. (uncountable) The baking of biscuits, bread, and similar items.
   • His biscuits -- well, I have eaten the results of less succuessful efforts in biscuitry, but I remember neither when nor where.1913, Percy C. Long, Caspar Whitney, Edward Cave, Recreation - Volume 49, page 342
3. (uncountable) The business of manufacturing biscuits.
   • Similar developments also took place in vinegars, ginger bread, sweets and desserts, pastries where Generate Alimentaire came up very fast by means of merger, fortifying Its threatened position ; in biscuitry, where the main French groups (L'Alsacienne, Bicuiterie Nantaise and Buscuits Brun) have...1968, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 3, page 3894
4. (countable) An individual business that manufactures biscuits and similar items; a biscuit factory.
   • For a couple of years the present writer was familiar with Russian biscuitries all over slafāom from the Pacific to the Baltic, but saw nothing original.1920, The Cracker Baker - Volume 9, page 39
5. (uncountable) The process of inserting biscuits (thin ovals of wood or other material) into mating slots in order to provide a gluing surface.
   • If all goes well with the lathe and the biscuitry, there will be only a little filing and scraping required to smooth the transitions around the corners.2000, Fine Woodworking - Issues 140-146, page 81
6. (uncountable) Synonym of biscuit (“a form of unglazed earthenware”).
   • Though rare, this pierced biscuitry is typically Ming.1928, Old Furniture: A Magazine of Domestic Ornament - Volume 5, page 4

   Synonyms:

   biscuit