Was the meaning of biscuit

Answer 1

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