— biscuitlike , adj.
/bis"kit/ , n.
1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast.
2. Chiefly Brit.
a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
b. a cookie.
3. a pale-brown color.
4. Also called bisque . Ceram. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
5. Also called preform . a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
adj.
6. having the color biscuit.
[ 1300-50; ME bysquyte biscuit (ML biscoctus ), var. of bescuit seamen's bread, lit., twice cooked, equiv. to bes BIS 1 + cuit, ptp. of cuire coquere to COOK 1 ]
/bees kwee"/ , n. French.
a cookie or cracker.