BISCUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biscuit mean? 

• BISCUIT (noun)
  The noun BISCUIT has 2 senses:

1. small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

2. any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term)

  Familiarity information: BISCUIT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BISCUIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("biscuit" is a kind of...):

quick bread (breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biscuit"):

rolled biscuit (biscuit made from dough rolled and cut)

drop biscuit (biscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoon)

baking-powder biscuit (leavened with baking powder)

buttermilk biscuit; soda biscuit (very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda)

hardtack; pilot biscuit; pilot bread; sea biscuit; ship biscuit (very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

biscuit; cookie; cooky

Hypernyms ("biscuit" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biscuit"):

dog biscuit (a hard biscuit for dogs)

granola bar (cookie bar made of granola)

wafer (a small thin crisp cake or cookie)

gingerbread man (gingerbread cut in the shape of a person)

fortune cookie (thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper)

chocolate chip cookie; Toll House cookie (cookies containing chocolate chips)

oatmeal cookie (cookies containing rolled oats)

sugar cookie (cookies sprinkled with granulated sugar)

fruit bar (cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars)

raisin cookie (cookie containing raisins)

refrigerator cookie (dough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and baked)

raisin-nut cookie (cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts)

molasses cookie (very spicy cookies sweetened partially with molasses)

tea biscuit; teacake (flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea)

butter cookie (cookie containing much butter)

spice cookie (cookie flavored with spices)

almond cookie; almond crescent (very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped)

brownie (square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts)

ginger nut; ginger snap; gingersnap; snap (a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger)

macaroon (chewy cookie usually containing almond paste)

kiss (a cookie made of egg whites and sugar)

ladyfinger (small finger-shaped sponge cake)

anise cookie (cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed)

oreo; oreo cookie (chocolate cookie with white cream filling)

 Context examples 

The profuse coat is always white, or white with biscuit or cream markings.

(American Eskimo Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

A dosing unit equal to the amount of ingredient(s) in a biscuit.

(Biscuit Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

We were given a suit of sailors’ togs each, a barrel of water, two casks, one of junk and one of biscuits, and a compass.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our visitor had consumed his milk and biscuits.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He thawed some sour-dough biscuits in the oven, at the same time heating a pot of beans he had boiled the night before and that had ridden frozen on the sled all morning.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A measurement based on the biscuit unit.

(Biscuit Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I never needed it more,” said Holmes as he refreshed himself with a glass of claret and some biscuits in the intervals of his toilet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I regained the cabin with a store of jams, sea-biscuits, canned meats, and such things,—all I could carry,—and replaced the trap-door.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This he did; and when the wine came, he made me have a little, with a biscuit, and, before I drank it, stand up and say, “Confusion to Brooks of Sheffield!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)