biscuits

Noun

biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)

1. (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
   • Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary
2. (Canada, US, rare) 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.
3. (Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK) A cracker.
   • cheese and biscuits
4. (especially) Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
   • Near-synonyms: tack, bread

   Synonyms:

   tack, bread

5. A form of unglazed earthenware.
   • Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87

   Synonyms:

   biscuitware, biscuitry

6. A light brown colour.

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