biscuitn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈbɪskɪt/, U.S.

/ˈbɪskᵻt/

Forms:

α. Middle English besquite, late Middle English bisquyte, late Middle English byscute, late Middle English byscuyte, late Middle English byscuythe, late Middle English bysquyd, late Middle English bysqwyte, late Middle English–1500s bysket, late Middle English–1600s bisquite, late Middle English–1700s bisquit, 1500s biscute, 1500s biskat, 1500s biskatte, 1500s biskitte, 1500s biskott, 1500s bisquette, 1500s byskette, 1500s–1600s biscat, 1500s–1600s biscot, 1500s–1600s bisked, 1500s–1600s biskett, 1500s–1600s biskette, 1500s–1600s biskit, 1500s–1600s byskett, 1500s–1700s bisket, 1500s–1800s bisquet, 1500s– biscuit, 1600s biscate, 1600s biskate, 1600s biskitt, 1600s bisquett, 1700s busquet; also Scottish pre-1700 beiscat, pre-1700 biscat, pre-1700 biskett, pre-1700 bisqueat, pre-1700 bisquet, pre-1700 bisquett, pre-1700 bisquite, pre-1700 bisqweit, pre-1700 1700s bisket.

β. late Middle English byscocte, 1500s–1600s biscoct.

γ. Scottish pre-1700 birscat, pre-1700 birschet, pre-1700 birskat, pre-1700 birsket, pre-1700 birskit, pre-1700 brescat, pre-1700 briscat, pre-1700 briscatt, pre-1700 briskatt, pre-1700 brisket, pre-1700 byrskart.

δ. 1500s bysky, 1500s byskye, 1500s (1800s English regional) bisky, 1800s– biskey (English regional).

ε. regional and nonstandard 1900s– bistick.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French biscuit.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman bisquit, Anglo-Norman and Middle French besquit, Middle French bescuit, biscuit, biscut (French biscuit ) dry unleavened bread which has been baked twice (early 14th cent.; the specific use to denote a sweet unleavened cake is first attested later in French than in English: 1660), use as noun (short for pain biscuit twice-baked bread) of biscuit twice baked (12th cent. in Old French as bescuit ) < bes- bes- prefix + cuit , past participle of cuire to cook (see cook v.¹; compare cuit n.). The baked good was so called from its original mode of preparation.Compare post-classical Latin panis biscoctus twice-baked bread (12th cent.; from c1200 in British sources), biscoctus , noun (13th cent.; 1440 in a British source), Old Occitan bescueit (c1200; Occitan bescuèit ), Catalan bescuit (late 13th cent. as bescuyt ), Spanish bizcocho (mid 15th cent. as noun and adjective; end of the 13th cent. as (now rare) biscocho ), Portuguese biscoito (15th cent.; early 14th cent. as bizcoyto ), Italian biscotto (early 14th cent. as noun and adjective), and also Middle High German piscot (German (now regional: Austria) Biskotte ; < Italian), German Biskuit (late 17th cent. as biscuit ; < French). Compare also German Zwieback zwieback n., a calque on the Romance noun. The French forms in bis- show alteration after classical Latin bis- bis- comb. form¹. Specific forms. The β. forms show remodelling after post-classical Latin biscoctus. The γ. forms show an epenthetic -r- , and in some cases metathesis of the cluster resulting from it, while the ε. form shows metathesis. The modern standard spelling biscuit reflects the modern standard French form biscuit in spelling only; the English word has never been pronounced with a medial semivowel. Specific senses. With the specific uses in ceramics (see sense A. 4 and use as adjective) compare bisque n.³, bisque adj. With sense A. 10 compare cookie n. 2b. Earlier example in a Latin context. It is unclear whether the following earlier vernacular example in a Latin context should be taken as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman noun:1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 47 Pro pane albo et bysquyte et viij barellis de farine.

A. n.

I. Senses referring to food.

a. A kind of baked unleavened bread, typically hard and flat and made from a mixture of flour and water, now usually served with cheese; (now more usually) a piece of this, a cracker. In early use also: spec. such bread broken into small pieces and hardened by rebaking, esp. for use on long sea voyages (cf. ship's biscuit n.).Now rare in North American use.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun]

biscuit?a1400

biscuit bread1440

bake1523

biscake1650

cookie1701

bicky1834

sandwich biscuit1901

sandwich cookie1905

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > crispbread or rusk > [noun]

biscuit?a1400

rusk1589

boer rusk1902

Ryvita1925

crispbread1926

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 4227 Armour þei had plente & god besquite [a1450 Lamb. bred bysquyd] to mete.

?c1450 Trivet's Life of Constance in F. J. Furnivall Originals & Analogues Canterbury Tales (1876) 229 (MED) Constaunce..made a shyp for to be stored wyth vytayle of a maner of Brede, the whyche ys called Bisquite.

1565 J. Hall Hist. Expost. in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. sig. Bbb.iiii^v Baked harde lyke a bisket.

1634 tr. L. Lessius Hygiasticon iii. 51 Abbat Serapion being a little boy, after..meals with others at the ninth houre of the day..was still a hungry; whereupon he was wont to steal a third bisket, which he used to eat in secret.

1750 N. Owen Jrnl. in E. Martin Jrnl. Slave-dealer (1930) 25 Our whole stock of provision consisted of..4 bisquits, a small pot of sugar, and some limes.

1846 Punch 22 Aug. 66/1 Assuaging my hunger with some biscuit and the captain's potted anchovies, I set to work to barricade myself against savages or wild beasts.

1889 B. C. Robinson Bench & Bar xiii. 185 Follet strolled into the kitchen of the House of Commons..and called for a biscuit and a glass of sherry.

1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 181 Sandwiches of thinnest gruyère between biscuits, or bread spread with green butter are excellent.

2020 @AndiMorris85 13 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 18 Feb. 2020) Just about to relax with some cheese and biscuits after a knackering week in work.

b. A small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, crumbly, flat, and sweet, and usually made from a mixture of flour, sugar, butter, and flavourings; (sometimes as a mass noun) food of this kind. Frequently with modifying word specifying the type or flavouring of the biscuit.In North American use cookie is the more common term; cf. sense A. 2.Abernethy biscuit, Bourbon biscuit, chocolate biscuit, finger biscuit, ginger biscuit, etc.: see the first element.

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1566 Banquett of Dainties sig. A.vi^v Stewde Proynes, conserue of Cherries red, Peares, Biskets, Suger fine, With nectar dulce, since I am wedde, by voyce of Muses nine.

1696 P. Ayres Revengeful Mistress 33 A large gilt Salver, handsomely fill'd and heaped up with thin Biskets, March-panes, and variety of dried Sweetmeats.

1768 Woman of Honor II. xviii. 66 The refreshments provided..are of no very great expence to Mrs. Pierpoint, who gives the entertainment, being chiefly coffee, tea, chocolate, biscuits, and the like.

1860 All Year Round 7 July 302 A miserable old man in a faded camlet cloak who sat Munching an Abernethy biscuit between his toothless gums.

1930 School Music Rev. 15 Jan. 265/1 The roof was made of biscuit, And apples lay on the sill; Gretel said ‘No! don't risk it,’ But Hansel said ‘Bosh! we will.’

2011 Times 2 July (Saturday Review section) 16/2 The place is empty but for..a group of three sixtysomethings having tea and biscuits at the far end of the room.

2. North American. A small round savoury cake of bread, similar to a scone in appearance, and typically made from a mixture of flour, fat, and a raising agent; (as mass noun) bread of this type.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > small cake > types of small cake

lozengec1430

rundle1587

macaroon1611

cookie1701

Savoy biscuit1719

queen cake1734

madling cake1747

dough1777

butter biscuit1789

rock cake1815

biscuit1818

madeleine1829

éclair1861

fairy cake1867

puftaloon1871

Eccles cake1872

petit four1875

rock bun1879

baby cake1880

rock1892

marigold1896

sponge finger1906

muffin top1914

palmier1920

lamington1929

whoopee pie1929

mandazi1937

French fancy1969

fondant fancy1974

1818 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. U.S. ix. 125 Hot short cakes, called biscuits.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. v. 27 Hot rolls.., a novelty then, but much like biscuits in parts of the Far West.

1919 Amer. Angler Sept. 267/2 The subsequent gratification of a ravenous appetite with fried trout and hot biscuit—no one can fry trout and make hot biscuit like mother.

2015 Bon Appétit Dec. 74 The kitchen focuses on new American standards like fried chicken and biscuits with hot honey.

3. A kind of hard, dry cake of food for animals, now spec. (a) (chiefly in plural) a small pellet of such food fed to pets, esp. cats and dogs; (also a mass noun) such pellets collectively; (b) a piece of such food moulded into a shape and used as a treat for pets, esp. dogs. Also as mass noun: such biscuits collectively.Frequently with modifying word specifying the animal for which the biscuit is intended; cf. dog biscuit n. 1 (in which the sense is recorded earliest).In North America kibble n.⁵ b is more often used than sense A. 3(a).

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1823 Sporting Mag. 12 New Ser. 156/2 An advertisement of dog biscuits manufactured by Mr. Smith, of Maidenhead.

1878 Sci. Amer. 31 Aug. 133/3 The horses were fed on the biscuits during twenty-six days.

1935 Manch. Guardian 15 Apr. 12/7 The table was stacked with all kinds of meal and biscuits for the dog.

1964 Washington Post 30 Nov. d15/1 He has two large, well-balanced meals daily plus occasional in-between snacks of raw meat, cat biscuit and milk.

2003 J. Ross & B. McKinney Adoptable Dog xx. 198 The first thing a puppy does when he hears the command is to look to see if the owner is holding a biscuit.

2011 @Smoapii 30 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Feb. 2020) Well, just gave the cat her biscuits and the dog her meat, they each sniffed their own bowls then casually swapped. *shrugs*

II. Something resembling an (edible) biscuit in shape, appearance, consistency, etc.

4. Ceramics. Pottery that has undergone a single firing to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time; a piece of such pottery. Also: spec. a type of unglazed, matt, typically white porcelain used for statuettes, vases, etc. (more fully biscuit porcelain or biscuit china); a piece of this. Cf. earlier Compounds 2a.Cf. bisque n.³ 2, and see also biscuitware n. at Compounds 2b.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > unglazed

terra-cotta1722

biscuit1768

biscuitware1773

bisque1782

redware1832

terre cuite1869

1768 J. Watt Let. 7 Apr. in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 12 The trouble of putting the glazing on a hard-burnt close body would raise the price too high: but this can be sucked in upon a bisket.

1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries iii. 92 A person who manufactures toys of earthenware.., painted in oil colours, upon the bisquet which far surpass any thing of the kind he ever saw in this district.

1871 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 716/1 A slender rod of metal.., terminated at one end by a small knob of white, unglazed, biscuit china.

1902 W. Burton Hist. & Descr. Eng. Porcelain xx. 142 In the delicately modelled flower pieces in biscuit porcelain..the artificial petals are almost as delicate as the real ones they imitate.

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son (1926) viii. 73 The china was to be of a plain white biscuit with a dark blue and gold border.

2017 K. Millward Surface Decoration x. 94 The biscuit has to be fired again to about 805°C (1481°F).

5. A flat, typically round mass of cured rubber, this being a form in which it is used by manufacturers of rubber products.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [noun] > from specific trees or places

hule1846

seringa1847

jintawan1851

Para rubber1857

biscuit1869

Honduras rubber1870

thimble-rubber1881

Para1897

caucho1899

thimble1909

1869 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 17 Dec. 83/1 The ‘biscuit’ consists of all the fine rubber, carefully prepared.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 836 The flat rounded cakes of [South American] rubber made in this manner are known in the London market as ‘biscuits’.

1971 U.S. Patent 3,587,181 7 If natural or synthetic rubbers or compounds are employed, a biscuit of the material is placed in the mold cavity whereupon heat and pressure are applied.

1999 W. J. Bodziak Footwear Impression Evidence (ed. 2) vii. 214 The white biscuit of rubber, which will be formed into the midsole, is placed on top of the already melted blue outsole.

6. A warm light brown colour resembling that of a biscuit (sense A. 1b). Cf. earlier sense B. 2.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > light brown

dust-colour1607

milk chocolate1723

café au lait1763

whitey-brown1858

biscuit1879

rachel1880

bisque1891

lobster bisque1895

toast-colour1898

parchment1904

toast1922

suntan1923

milk coffee1972

1879 Sylvia's Home Jrnl. Sept. 299/1 The favourite material is still cashmere, and for summer many costumes are made of it in white, cream, or biscuit.

1903 Delineator Aug. 198/1 Another good tweed dress takes a light shade of biscuit.

2018 Daily Mirror (Ireland) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 24 The classic camel coat trend also makes a comeback for the new season in various tasty shades from biscuit and caramel to toffee and tobacco.

7. Military slang (chiefly British). A small square brown mattress or palliasse.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress > other types

box mattress1855

poncho mattress1862

overlay mattress1907

biscuit1915

dog biscuit1925

Posturepedic1946

interior spring mattress1948

California king1997

1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand v. 33 ‘Got the biscuits here, Sergeant-Major?’.. The Sergeant-Major dives into a pile of brown blankets and presently extracts three small brown mattresses, each two feet square.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 92 At Salisbury Plain and Camberley in 1909/10 I learnt a number of camping expressions like..biscuits (small mattresses reputed to be as hard as dog-biscuits).

1971 London Mag. Mar. 21 I sleep on biscuits on floorboards in a flat in Belgrave Square.

2017 Derby Tel. (Nexis) 8 Jan. The fortunate ones had a bed with a mattress but others had to make do with three ‘biscuits’, which were miniature mattresses which should have fitted together but which usually showed a distinct reluctance to meet.

8. Ice Hockey slang. A puck.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > equipment

hockey1839

puck1886

biscuit1925

1925 Lethbridge (Alberta) Daily Herald 7 Jan. 9/1 Coupez climbed in for the second rebound and landed the biscuit in the net for two all.

2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 14 June 40 As with most sports the goal is pretty simple—the team which puts the biscuit in the basket the most, wins.

9. Woodworking and Joinery. A small thin (originally wooden) oval used to form joints, a number of which are glued or wedged into curved slots cut into the edge of one of the two components to be joined and then pushed into matching slots in the other component.

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1931 V. W. Pagé Henley's ABC Gliding & Sailflying 251 ³/ ₁₆-inch plywood gussets or ‘biscuits’ are fastened in the usual way to reinforce the joints.

1989 Pop. Sci. June 140/2 A biscuit joiner now can be used to join solid counter-top materials as well as wood, thanks to recently introduced plastic biscuits.

2013 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 10 Aug. 14 The results [of pocket screw joinery] still don't look as clean and classic as completely hidden biscuits or dowel joints.

III. Senses referring to a person.

10. U.S. slang. Usually with dismissive connotations: an attractive young woman. Now somewhat dated. Cf. cookie n. 2b.In quot. 1855 as part of an extended metaphor.

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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman

morsela1450

honeypot1618

enchantera1704

peach1710

enchantress1713

sparkler1713

enslaver1728

witch1740

fascinatress1799

honey1843

biscuit1855

fairy1862

baby1863

scorcher1881

cracker1891

peacherino1896

hot tamale1897

mink1899

hotty?1913

babe1915

a bit of skirt1916

cookie1917

tomato1918

snuggle-pup1922

nifty1923

brahma1925

package1931

ginch1934

blonde bombshell1942

beast1946

smasher1948

a bit of crackling1949

nymphet1955

nymphette1961

fox1963

beaver1968

superbabe1970

brick house1977

nubile1977

yummy mummy1993

1855 J. Brougham Basket of Chips 327 The biscuit had a little anchovy paste about it..but they soon diskivered that..it was only a Boston cracker.

1944 D. Runyon Runyon a la Carte 134 The chief gets a call today from a biscuit by the name of Barbecue who runs an eating joint out on the Trail.

1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 222/1 Reel in the biscuit... Lure a girl to bed.

B. adj.

1. Ceramics. Made of biscuit (in sense A. 4). Cf. bisque adj. 1.

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1773 Public Advertiser 25 Jan. The Biscuit Groups and Figures, of which there are great Variety, are modelled with utmost Nicety.

1880 Internat. Exhib. 1876: Rep. & Awards (U.S. Centennial Comm.) III. 581 Biscuit vases and flower-stands with delicate open tracery.

2020 @CeramicsTracey 3 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 26 Feb. 2020) First set of Biscuit pots—now to make my pink glaze!

2. Designating a warm light brown colour resembling that of a biscuit (sense A. 1b); having such a colour. Cf. sense A. 6.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > light brown

parchment1597

whited brown1650

whitey-brown1658

coffee-coloured1695

dust-coloured1800

ochre-brown1853

blonde1866

biscuit1875

weedy-brown1886

mousy1888

bisque1890

toast-coloured1898

suntan1923

sunblush1930

rachel1951

1875 York Herald 9 Sept. 6/3 Blue Japanese silk dresses, trimmed with biscuit colour tulle veils.

1902 Sphere 1 Nov. p. vi/1 The Queen, who had worn..a very pretty mauve wrap over a biscuit gown on Saturday, was looking equally sweet on Sunday.

1999 Financial Times 29 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xvi/4 There were wonderful views of the village, the harmony of its pale biscuit stone spoiled only by the presence of two yellow cranes.

2017 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 4 Mar. 44 In the lounge..biscuit linen chesterfield sofas are set against the backdrop of a leather-effect, patterned wall covering.

Phrases

colloquial. to take (also cop, win) the biscuit: to be the most remarkable or extreme example of its kind; often used ironically or as an expression of surprise. Cf. to take the cake at cake n. and adj. Phrases 6.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [verb (intransitive)]

to take the bun1371

to bear the bellc1374

to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531

to take the cake (also cakes)1839

to take (also cop, win) the biscuit1880

to ring the bell1900

1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 20 Oct. 8/2 Fort Dearborn Division, No. 1, of this city, ‘took the biscuit’, as Mr. Goodwin would say, for their excellent bearing and efficient drill.

1892 Yorks. Evening Post 12 Oct. (Late Buff ed.) 2/6 I know 'Arrygate girls cop the biscuit for beauty.

1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves vi. 167 Of all the absolutely foul sights I have ever seen, this took the biscuit with ridiculous ease.

2001 Libr. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 54 Next the question that helped Pritchard win the biscuit.

2011 Irish Times 10 Sept. 18/1 Jack Russells enjoy a reputation for terrier-like determination and irrepressible energy but Jack, a fine example of the breed, takes the biscuit.

Compounds

C1. In various types of compounds relating to food.In these compounds, and in food-related compounds at Compounds 3, the meaning of biscuit is now usually sense A. 2 in North American use and sense A. 1 in other regions.

a. As a modifier, forming nouns denoting a bag or container used for holding biscuits, as in biscuit bag, biscuit sack, biscuit tin, etc.See also biscuit barrel n. at Compounds 3.

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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for biscuits or crackers

biscuit sack1740

biscuit barrel1787

biscuit bag1837

cracker-box1857

cookie jar1871

cracker-barrel1877

the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > tin > for biscuits

biscuit tin2007

1581 A. Gurney Doleful Disc. Fire in E. Dearham, Norfolke sig. C.iv^v Bisket Boxes, Carawayes and these, I leaft at large, for daintie waspes and Bees.

1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 446 A Sail made of a Bisket-sack.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. viii. 152 A sinking pilot will fling out..his very biscuit-bags.

1913 House Beautiful May 191/2 What guest-room would be complete without a biscuit jar, filled with wafers?

1928 C. D. Emerson Hat-Tub Tale vi. 83 He laid his head down upon the biscuit cask in despair.

2007 Sunday Tel. 23 Sept. 27 My room mate..thought me odd but was tolerant as long as I didn't pinch the Gypsy Creams from her biscuit tin.

b. As a modifier, forming nouns denoting a place or building where biscuits are made or sold, as in biscuit bakery, biscuit factory, etc.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where biscuits made

biscuit factory2019

1788 World 12 Mar. Rempton, at the Original Biscuit Shop,..continues to bake his Wafer, Captain, and American Biscuits.

1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 452/1 The largest biscuit-manufactories are those..for supplying the navy.

1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 June 1099/2 The biscuit bakery which was once visited by George III.

2019 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 9 July 2 The 2 Sisters Food Group..has a biscuit factory in Uttoxeter.

c. With agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which biscuit expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in biscuit baker, biscuit making, etc.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > baker > baker of biscuits

biscuit baker1599

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing pastry, biscuits, or cake > [noun]

pastrya1516

biscuit making1835

pastrycookery1860

1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 106 The goods belonging to certaine Portugal Iesuites and a Biscuit baker a Portugal, we tooke that ship & did not force the other two.

1770 Borella Court & Country Confectioner 240 All the experienced and professed biscuit makers always put first in the oven those where there is flour.

1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 452/1 Our description of biscuit-making.

1928 Times of India 16 Oct. 9/2 The aged wife of a biscuit-seller and three girls..were digging earth.

2015 Weston Mercury (Nexis) 31 Jan. 15 Sidcot School's Holiday Club has been hosting a range of activities, most recently biscuit baking.

d. As a modifier, with the sense ‘like or resembling a biscuit’, as in biscuit-coloured, biscuit-shaped, etc.

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1771 J. R. Forster Flora Amer. Septentrionalis 228 The fruit I am unacquainted with; the root is a flat biscuit-shaped bulb.

1880 Belfast Newsletter 21 Jan. 3/6 The bridesmaids' dresses were composed of a rich biscuit-coloured satin.

2013 J. Gary Short Leash iv. 24 The vet held up the pup's biscuit-sized paws and told me to take a look. ‘He's going to be big. Real big.’

C2. Ceramics.

a. As a modifier, in the sense ‘used to fire clay into bisque’ (cf. sense A. 4), as in biscuit oven (now rare), biscuit kiln; also more generally in sense A. 4.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > pottery kilns

pot-oven1702

biscuit oven1768

gloss-oven1825

glaze-kiln1839

porcelain kiln1848

grand feu1850

smother-kiln1851

bisque1853

muffle kiln1853

muffle1875

1752 Gentleman's Mag. 22 348 (caption) The porcelain manufactory at Worcester... 3 Biscuit kilns. 4 Glasing kilns.

1768 J. Wedgwood Let. 13 June in Sel. Lett. (1965) 65 We..cannot keep Pace with the Biscuit oven.

1784 J. Wedgwood in Philos. Trans. 1783 (Royal Soc.) 73 285 Mixed with porcelain biscuit body, it gives darker or lighter shades of black and brown, as the quantity is greater or less in proportion to the body.

1801 Repertory of Arts 15 163 If of metal, [the pallet]..should be enameled... If of porcelain, to be left in the biscuit state.

1863 Adelaide Observer 28 Nov. Suppl. 1/4 It had advanced only so far as the ‘biscuit’ stage; but there is no doubt that, when subjected to the glazing process, it will compare favourably with Staffordshire ware.

1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns viii. 172 There's the biscuit oven, but we can't inspect it because it's just being drawn.

1911 W. A. Nelson Clay Deposits W. Tennessee 110 The ware after being molded is placed in a china ware kiln and burned to biscuit heat.

1981 S. Bates Pottery ix. 51 Another common cause of a pot blowing up is when it has been packed into the biscuit kiln before it is really dry.

2002 J. Doherty Porcelain vii. 72 Fine bowls can be packed rim to rim in the biscuit kiln.

biscuit clay n. Ceramics pottery that has that has undergone a single firing to harden the clay permanently, prior to glazing.

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1868 Scotsman 27 Nov. 5/2 The pieces of ware are dipped singly into the glaze liquid, then they are placed into the ‘seggars’, on sharply pointed tripods of ‘biscuit’ clay.

2011 L. Durbin Archit. Tiles ii. 30 The firing temperature reached about 1000 degrees centigrade over a period of about 36 hours and produced a soft bodied, porous, yellow biscuit clay which was suitable for applying white tin glaze.

biscuit-fire v. Ceramics transitive to fire (pottery) so as to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time.

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1874 J. S. Wilson Victorian (Austral.) Patent 1891 1/1 After the articles have been biscuit fired I allow them to cool slowly and then dip them in the glazing composition.

1943 Bakersfield Californian 21 Jan. (City section) 9/1 If the work is in pottery, the design is worked out in raw clay, then biscuit fired in the kiln.

2002 J. Doherty Porcelain vii. 71 Most potters choose to biscuit fire their work.

biscuit firing n. Ceramics the action of firing pottery so as to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time; the state produced by this process; cf. biscuiting n. at Derivatives, bisque firing n. at bisque n.³ and adj. Compounds 2.

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1834 Factories Inq. Comm.: Suppl. Rep. Employm. Children in Factories ii. B.1.145 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 167) XX. 1 The ware in its first state, called biscuit-firing.

1896 Brit. Architect 6 Mar. 175/2 The second fire..is much harder than the biscuit firing given to earthenware bodies.

2002 C. Pollard Master Potter of Meiji Japan 82/1 He was also obliged to enlarge one chamber of his largest kiln for the biscuit firing of the pieces.

biscuitware n. pottery that has undergone a single firing, esp. that intended to be glazed and fired a second time; pots, ornaments, etc., made from this.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > unglazed

terra-cotta1722

biscuit1768

biscuitware1773

bisque1782

redware1832

terre cuite1869

1773 Catal. Cameos, Intaglios, Medals & Bas-reliefs (Wedgwood & Bentley) 3 A fine white Biscuit Ware, or Terra Cotta, polished and unpolished.

1843 New Monthly Mag. June 147 There was suspended a wicker-basket, containing a white biscuitware garden-pot.

2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. viii. 117 In the middle of the floor was a heap of broken biscuitware that looked as though someone had been jumping on it.

biscuit warehouse n. Ceramics a place where biscuitware is stored after coming out of the biscuit kiln.

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?1793 Wakefield's Merchant & Tradesman's Gen. Directory for Year 1794 297 Russel, Edward, Biscuit Warehouse, 453, Strand.

1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns viii. 173 Mynors took the plate..to the biscuit-warehouse.

2016 @burleighpottery 11 May in twitter.com (accessed 26 Feb. 2020) A footbath and a Casters jug in our biscuit warehouse—soon to be decorated & pride of place in someone's home.

biscuit warehouseman n. Ceramics (now rare) a person (esp. a man) who manages a biscuit warehouse.

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1819 Staffs. Advertiser 13 Nov. 1/2 Wanted, A Steady active Person, to superintend the Workmanship of a considerable Earthenware Manufactory..Also a good Biscuit Warehouseman.

1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns viii. 173 A solitary biscuit-warehouseman was examining the ware.

1947 Evening Sentinel (Staffs.) 3 Dec. 2/5 Situations Vac.—Pottery..Biscuit Warehouseman for General Earthenware wanted at once, permanent position.

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biscuit barrel n. a barrel used to contain biscuits; (now) spec. a small barrel-shaped container for domestic use.

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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for biscuits or crackers

biscuit sack1740

biscuit barrel1787

biscuit bag1837

cracker-box1857

cookie jar1871

cracker-barrel1877

1787 T. Jefferson Let. 18 Sept. in Papers (1955) XII. 145 He has contrived a varnish..for lining biscuit barrels.

1886 F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy (1887) ii. 21 You said..that you wouldn't have them sitting 'round on your biscuit barrels.

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xi. 174 People still give plated biscuit-barrels!

2006 T. Hadley in Granta Summer 244 She made cups of milky sweet tea for the children.., gave them the biscuit barrel full of lemon creams.

biscuit beater n. chiefly U.S. (now rare) an apparatus for beating biscuit dough, typically comprising a wooden board and a hammer or a roller; cf. beaten biscuit n. at beaten adj. Compounds.

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1718 Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts 65 Mix it well with Sugar, beat it with a Biscuit-beater.

1917 Vogue 15 May 94/2 She worked the dough a little and then beat it with a biscuit-beater until it blistered.

1992 R. Gerald Alvey Kentucky Bluegrass Country xvi. 263 (caption) Miss Susie Jackson making her world famous beaten biscuits on her homemade, motorized biscuit beater.

biscuit beetle n. chiefly British (originally) any of various small beetles which are pests on dried foodstuffs, such as flour, biscuits, herbs, and seeds, and other material derived from plants and animals, such as paper and leather; (in later use spec.) Stegobium paniceum, also called (esp. North American) drugstore beetle.

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1889 Indian Museum Notes 1 No. 1, 60 Biscuit beetles. From Mr. W. N. Duncan, of Calcutta, were received (21st June 1888), specimens of beetles which injure ship's-biscuits... Dr. Günther, of the British Museum,..reports on them as follows:—‘All common warehouse insects, Silvanus surinamensis, Rhizopertha pusilla, and Tribolium ferrugineum’.

1990 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 30 Jan. The larva of the biscuit beetle (Stegobium Paniceum to its friends) is fond of the flour paste used in earlier times to glue pages to their bindings.

2010 R. Jones House Guests, House Pests v. 106 The first time I ever found biscuit beetles, they were floating to the surface of the milk I was pouring onto my breakfast cereal.

biscuit board n. chiefly U.S. a board on which biscuit dough is rolled out, cut into shapes, etc., before baking.

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1847 Cultivator Dec. 380/2 After having been so mixed in part with a large spoon or ladle, it may be turned out upon the biscuit board.

1909 Kindergarten Rev. 21 Jan. 75/1 When the last biscuit was in the biscuit pan, mamma said : ‘Here is a little piece of dough left on my biscuit board. I wonder if there is a little girl in this kitchen who would like to make some little biscuit?’

2009 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. d3/6 Petra Djurdjevic could have been moving dough from a biscuit board to a baking sheet in her own kitchen.

biscuit bomber n. Army slang (chiefly Australian); now historical (also with capital initials) an aircraft used to drop supplies to troops.Frequently used to refer to the Douglas DC-3, which was used to drop supplies in remote parts of New Guinea during the Second World War (1939–45).

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1942 Sydney Morning Herald 14 Dec. 7/2 The good work of the ‘biscuit bombers’, as the big supply planes were called by the troops, had given the troops plenty of ammunition and food.

1974 D. Waugh Master White Grass 35 Food will be dropped where necessary by the biscuit-bombers, or carried by boong-train—by native carriers.

1978 R. Macklin Newsfront 99 Above they could see old ‘Biscuit Bombers’, resurrected from war service, dropping supplies.

2012 P. Williams Kokoda Trail for Dummies vi. 272 Movie footage filmed by wartime cinematographer Damien Parer shows Douglas DC3 aircraft (colloquially known as the biscuit bombers) dropping food and equipment to the waiting troops.

biscuit-brained adj. rare (of a person) stupid or foolish.

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1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. H4 Will ye beleeue, what such a bisket brain'd fellow as this saies?

1928 Punch 2 May 488/1 Most of them..spent more time and patience over improving his mind than a conscientious Education Officer does over a party of biscuit-brained Third-Class-Certificate men.

1968 ‘S. Lee’ Vulture's Prey in Amazing Spider-man vs. Vulture (2017) 73 You biscuit-brained bedbug! Do you think you'd be safer with him running loose in the city?

biscuit bread n. (a) a kind of baked unleavened bread, typically hard and flat and made from a mixture of flour and water (cf. sense A. 1a); (b) U.S. regional savoury bread in the form of a cake, similar to a scone in appearance, and typically made from a mixture of flour, fat, and a raising agent; cf. sense A. 2.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun]

biscuit?a1400

biscuit bread1440

bake1523

biscake1650

cookie1701

bicky1834

sandwich biscuit1901

sandwich cookie1905

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 37 Byscute brede, biscoctus.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xxi. 720 Phisitions appoint bisket bread for such as are troubled with rheumes.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 128 Two Ships which he shewed me, that had lay'd in little or nothing by Biscuit Bread, and Ship Beer.

?1805 J. Robertson Coll. Comic Songs 39 We eat beef and biscuit bread, While on dainties you are fed.

1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 286 Everywhere in the mountains we hear of biscuit-bread,..preacher-man, granny-woman and neighbor-people.

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1990) I. iv. 67 Nearly every skillet is full of corn-bread. But some like biscuit-bread better.

1963 ‘G. Carr’ Lewker in Norway iv. 82 Two packets of the thin but nourishing Norwegian biscuit-bread called fladbrod.

2007 G. Riley Oxf. Compan. Ital. Food 185/2 In the tigelle of Emilia-Romagna..a thin yeasted flatbread is cooked between two decorated heated tiles to produce a crisp biscuit bread.

2019 @bamasaturday 23 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 27 Feb. 2020) Beef Tips and rice with Brussels sprouts and carrots, Hominy and biscuit bread is what's for supper.

biscuit cake n. †(a) (a portion of) baked unleavened bread (see sense A. 1a) (obsolete); (b) a cake with a base of crushed biscuits, esp. one with a base of crushed digestive biscuits with toppings such as fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc., which is chilled rather than baked.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > unleavened bread

biscuit cake1593

matzo1650

lavash1662

flatbread1762

fladbröd1799

damper1827

johnnycake1827

bammy1852

salt-rising bread1854

paratha1935

roti canai1974

roti prata1980

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > dish made with biscuit

biscuit cake1593

Scotch coffee1815

dogsbody1818

dandyfunk1883

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes

honey appleeOE

barley-cake1393

seed cakea1400

cake?a1425

pudding-cake?1553

manchet1562

biscuit cake1593

placent1598

poplin1600

jumbal1615

bread pudding1623

semel1643

wine-cakea1661

Shrewsbury cake1670

curd cake1675

fruitcake1687

clap-bread1691

simnel cake1699

orange-flower cake1718

banana cake1726

sweet-cake1726

torte1748

Naples cake1766

Bath cake1769

gofer1769

yeast-cake1795

nutcake1801

tipsy-cake1806

cruller1808

baba1813

lady's finger1818

coconut cake1824

mint cake1825

sices1825

cup-cake1828

batter-cake1830

buckwheat1830

Dundee seed cake1833

fat-cake1839

babka1846

wonder1848

popover1850

cream-cake1855

sly-cake1855

dripping-cake1857

lard-cake1858

puffet1860

quick cake1865

barnbrack1867

matrimony cake1871

brioche1873

Nelson cake1877

cocoa cake1883

sesame cake1883

marinade1888

mystery1889

oblietjie1890

stuffed monkey1892

Greek bread1893

Battenberg1903

Oswego cake1907

nusstorte1911

dump cake1912

Dobos Torte1915

lekach1918

buckle1935

Florentine1936

hash cake1967

space cake1984

1593 M. Sutcliffe Pract., Proc., & Lawes of Armes xvi. 227 Giuing away all the victuals that were in the newe Castle,..his souldiers albeit they begged apace, could not tell where to haue a bisket cake, or other victuals.

1623 W. Capps Let. 31 Mar. in S. M. Kingsbury Recs. Virginia Company (1935) IV. 78 They appointed that euery man should haue halfe a Biskett Cake and halfe a small Can of Beare.

a1657 W. Bradford Of Plimouth Plantation (1901) 128 Ther was not so much as bisket-cake or any other victialls for them.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 97 Having perceiv'd my Bread had been low a great while, now I took a Survey of it, and reduc'd myself to one Bisket-cake a Day.

1833 Newcastle Courant 27 July They put an old pelisse in the bottom of the canoe, four biscuit cakes, a bottle containing a few pints of fresh water, six eggs, a little salt pork, and a kettle.

1934 Telegraph (Brisbane) 14 Mar. 16/3 Chocolate Biscuit Cake... Place alternate layers of the mixture and the biscuits until the tin is filled... Stand in cold place until set.

1976 Billy Joe Tatum's Wild Foods Cookbk. & Field Guide ii. 204 B. J.'s Biscuit Cake. This upside-down cake may also be made with such other wild fruits as blackberries or strawberries.

2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Apr. Sprinkle them [sc. Brazil nuts] over the biscuit cake, then place the remaining glacé cherries among them.

† biscuit cast n. (also biscuit's cast) Nautical slang Obsolete the distance that a ship's biscuit can be thrown; a short distance; cf. biscuit throw n., stone's throw n.

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the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance

wurpc950

stepc1000

footc1300

furlong wayc1384

stone-casta1387

straw brede14..

tinec1420

weec1420

field-breadth1535

field-broad1535

pair of butts1545

straw-breadth1577

stone's throw1581

way-bit?1589

space1609

piece1612

littlea1616

spirt1670

a spit and a stride1676

hair's breadth1706

rope's length1777

biscuit throw1796

a whoop and a holler1815

biscuit toss1836

biscuit cast1843

stone-shot1847

pieceway1886

stone-put1896

pitch-and-putt1925

pieceways1932

1843 J. E. Bingham Narr. Exped. to China (ed. 2) II. vi. 315 This man was in the habit of grooming a pony belonging to his captain, kept..within a biscuit's cast of the ship.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 461 A second [iceberg] had approached within short biscuit-cast.

1909 A. Pratt in Short Stories (N.Y.) May 14 The Saigon, currishly obedient to the Russian's signals, followed suit, bringing up within a biscuit cast of her consort and captor.

biscuit cutter n. Baking a utensil, typically a metal or plastic ring or other hollow shape, designed to cut and shape biscuit dough; cf. cookie cutter n. 1.

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1839 L. Bryan Kentucky Housewife 306 Knead it well, roll it out into a thin sheet, cut it into cakes with a biscuit cutter.., and bake them in a brisk oven.

1880 York Herald 3 July 7/6 I take my biscuit-cutter and cut from puff paste, very thinly rolled.

2009 J. J. Daymon How to Survive Tough Times 71 Knead [dough] lightly. Roll..and cut with floured cutter. (You can use a glass if you don't have a biscuit cutter.)

biscuit dough n. dough used to make biscuits (in various senses); cf. cookie dough n. at cookie n. Compounds.

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1817 Hampshire Chron. & Courier 16 June On Monday night the bakehouse of Mr. Whitewood was broken into, and a quantity of flour and biscuit dough stolen therefrom.

1939 I. Wolcott Yankee Cook Bk. 365 Slump. What State-of-Mainers call cooked fruit topped with dumplings or biscuit dough.

2015 S. Orwig Kissed by Rancher ii. 26 The biscuit dough is rising. I'll get the fruit and coffee soon.

biscuit joiner n. Woodworking and Joinery a power tool consisting of a very small circular saw in a housing, designed to cut crescent-shaped slots into the edges of components so that they may be joined together using biscuits (sense A. 9); cf. biscuit joint n.

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1987 Fine Homebuilding Apr.–May 82/1 (advt.) Freud's new biscuit joiner allows quick, accurate assembly of cabinets, furniture and even picture frames at a fraction of the time as conventional methods.

2012 A. Fraser et al. Woodworking 101 110/1 Mark out the biscuit locations..or save time and align the edge of the biscuit joiner with the edge of the case pieces and plunge-cut.

biscuit joint n. Woodworking and Joinery a joint made by gluing or wedging biscuits (sense A. 9) into slots cut into the edges of two components being joined together.Further evidence for the longer term given in quot. 1982 is lacking.

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1982 T.R. Griffiths Pract. Theater 149 The joint, often humorously called a 'dog and biscuit' joint, is now complete.]

1986 P. Spielman Gluing & Clamping ix. 138 Biscuit joints.

1989 A. Jackson & D. Day Collins Compl. Woodworker's Man. iv. 136/2 Round dowel holes need to be perfectly aligned if the two joint components are to fit snugly. With a biscuit joint, however, slight lateral adjustment is possible by tapping one component sideways.

2011 S. Lake Kitchens ix. 24 If the worktop does not move once you have removed all of the screws, you may have to cut it away with a saw as it may have been fitted with biscuit joints at the corners.

biscuit jointer n. Woodworking and Joinery a power tool consisting of a very small circular saw in a housing, designed to cut crescent-shaped slots into the edges of components so that they may be joined together using biscuits (sense A. 9); = biscuit joiner n.

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1982 Fine Woodworking Nov.–Dec. 59/2 (advt.) ‘Biscuit’ jointer available from Markel Design.

1989 A. Jackson & D. Day Collins Compl. Woodworker's Man. iv. 136/1 A biscuit jointer is a specialized miniature plunge saw developed to make a form of tongue and groove joint for cabinet construction.

2018 B. Holden Black & Decker Carpentry Made Simple 40 Use a biscuit jointer (plate jointer) and biscuits (or dowels) to help align mating boards when edge-gluing the tabletop.

biscuitroot n. North American any of various North American plants having starchy edible roots, esp. of the genera Camassia (family Asparagaceae) and Lomatium (family Apiaceae); (also) the root of such a plant.cous biscuitroot: see cous n.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > quamash

root bread1757

camas1805

biscuitroot1837

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > other root vegetables

skirret1338

pease earthnut1548

skirret-root1565

rampion1573

Tragopogon1578

oca1604

tuckahoe1612

groundnut1636

sedge-root1648

breadroot1756

tannia1756

rush nut1783

wapato1796

cous1806

vegetable oyster1806

prairie turnip1811

prairie potato1828

murnong1836

Tartarian bread1836

biscuitroot1837

yam-bean1864

tiger-nut1887

wasabi1903

ramp1946

sunchoke1955

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > quamash

root bread1757

camas1805

biscuitroot1837

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > other root vegetables or plants producing them

skirret-root1565

Spanish nut1597

oca1604

tuckahoe1612

sisyrinchium1629

sedge-root1648

arrowroot1681

breadroot1756

tannia1756

rush nut1783

wapato1796

cous1806

prairie turnip1811

prairie potato1828

native potato1833

murnong1836

Tartarian bread1836

biscuitroot1837

tobacco-root1845

amadumbi1851

chufa1860

yam-bean1864

parsnip chervil1866

tiger-nut1887

yautia1899

wasabi1903

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. i. 9 The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour.

1953 Herald Jrnl. (Logan, Utah) 29 July 10/2 Biscuitroot is a weed especially menacing to dry farms, since it grows early in the spring and thus robs the wheat crop of valuable moisture.

2002 P. Nabokov & L. Loendorf Amer. Indians & Yellowstone National Park iii. 143/1 There are multiple species and subspecies of plants like bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva),..biscuitroot (Lomatium sp.),..and tobacco-root (Valeriana sp.) that could have been important sources of food.

biscuit shooter n. U.S. slang (now rare) a person who serves food quickly; spec. a maid, waitress, or waiter, or a mess cook in a workman's camp, on a ranch, etc.; cf. hash slinger n. at hash n.¹ Compounds 2.

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1873 Rutland (Vermont) Daily Globe 8 Sept. The latest name for table waiters is—‘biscuit shooters’.

1875 Burlington (Iowa) Daily Hawk-eye 21 Sept. 8/1 Who has the better right to the kitchen fire Sunday evenings,..the young lady of the family and her Augustus, or the biscuit shooter and her young man?

1902 Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel 15 Mar. 8/2 When rather young and hard up in Omaha he was a ‘biscuit shooter’ in a ‘hurry up hashhouse’.

1917 Chicago Examiner 3 Aug. 3/4 ‘Are you the cook?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ replied the startled biscuit shooter.

2011 J. D. Nesbitt Gather my Horses iv. 58 He saw her as more than just a biscuit-shooter.

biscuit throw n. originally Nautical slang (now rare) the distance that a ship's biscuit can be thrown; (later more generally) a short distance (cf. biscuit toss n., stone's throw n.).

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the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance

wurpc950

stepc1000

footc1300

furlong wayc1384

stone-casta1387

straw brede14..

tinec1420

weec1420

field-breadth1535

field-broad1535

pair of butts1545

straw-breadth1577

stone's throw1581

way-bit?1589

space1609

piece1612

littlea1616

spirt1670

a spit and a stride1676

hair's breadth1706

rope's length1777

biscuit throw1796

a whoop and a holler1815

biscuit toss1836

biscuit cast1843

stone-shot1847

pieceway1886

stone-put1896

pitch-and-putt1925

pieceways1932

1796 L. Furlong Amer. Coast Pilot 108 Run for Wigwam-Point which you must keep close aboard (within a biscuit throw).

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. viii. 103 Running the brig within biscuit-throw of the weather schooner.

1986 Spectator 19 July 14/2 In a side street, a biscuit throw away from the extravagantly bad Hotel Turist, there is the house of the Prizren League.

biscuit toss n. originally Nautical slang (now rare) the distance that a ship's biscuit can be thrown; (later more generally) a short distance; cf. biscuit throw n., stone's throw n.

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the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance

wurpc950

stepc1000

footc1300

furlong wayc1384

stone-casta1387

straw brede14..

tinec1420

weec1420

field-breadth1535

field-broad1535

pair of butts1545

straw-breadth1577

stone's throw1581

way-bit?1589

space1609

piece1612

littlea1616

spirt1670

a spit and a stride1676

hair's breadth1706

rope's length1777

biscuit throw1796

a whoop and a holler1815

biscuit toss1836

biscuit cast1843

stone-shot1847

pieceway1886

stone-put1896

pitch-and-putt1925

pieceways1932

1836 N. P. Willis in N.-Y. Mirror 14 May 364/2 At the distance of a biscuit-toss from the shore, however, the rock was dropped to leeward, and a small passage appeared.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Jan. 3/1 This was but a biscuit-toss from Crown Office-row.

2006 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 22 Jan. d9 Captain Johnson..ran her [sc. the ship] full speed onto the rocky coastline, which, though a mere biscuit toss away when she stopped, proved to be as elusive as her first reprieve from danger.

† biscuit-worm n. Obsolete rare (in quot. 1798, probably) a maggot of a beetle infesting ship's biscuit; compare biscuit beetle n.

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1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 9 The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms.

Derivatives

ˈbiscuiting n. Ceramics the action of firing pottery so as to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time; the state produced by this process; = biscuit firing n. at Compounds 2b.

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] > specific processes

fictilage1610

throwing1686

fritting1816

biscuiting1819

slapping1825

blunging1832

jigging1865

baking1868

bossinga1877

kaolinization1886

towing1892

jolleying1901

saggaring1901

mould-running1910

mullitization1939

double-dipping1940

Belgicization1942

prefiring1944

press-moulding1953

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXVIII. at Pottery The ware called white ware is made of the same material, and manufactured precisely in the same way, as far as the biscuiting.

1860 New-Hampsh. Statesman 4 Aug. They are now placed on clay sides, and are ready for biscuiting.

2003 Nottingham Evening Post (Nexis) 11 Jan. 3 The tile is then fired in the kiln—a process called biscuiting—and finally coated in a honey glaze which gives the tile its distinctive colouring.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	biscuit
释义	biscuitn.adj. Brit. /ˈbɪskɪt/, U.S. /ˈbɪskᵻt/ Forms: α. Middle English besquite, late Middle English bisquyte, late Middle English byscute, late Middle English byscuyte, late Middle English byscuythe, late Middle English bysquyd, late Middle English bysqwyte, late Middle English–1500s bysket, late Middle English–1600s bisquite, late Middle English–1700s bisquit, 1500s biscute, 1500s biskat, 1500s biskatte, 1500s biskitte, 1500s biskott, 1500s bisquette, 1500s byskette, 1500s–1600s biscat, 1500s–1600s biscot, 1500s–1600s bisked, 1500s–1600s biskett, 1500s–1600s biskette, 1500s–1600s biskit, 1500s–1600s byskett, 1500s–1700s bisket, 1500s–1800s bisquet, 1500s– biscuit, 1600s biscate, 1600s biskate, 1600s biskitt, 1600s bisquett, 1700s busquet; also Scottish pre-1700 beiscat, pre-1700 biscat, pre-1700 biskett, pre-1700 bisqueat, pre-1700 bisquet, pre-1700 bisquett, pre-1700 bisquite, pre-1700 bisqweit, pre-1700 1700s bisket. β. late Middle English byscocte, 1500s–1600s biscoct. γ. Scottish pre-1700 birscat, pre-1700 birschet, pre-1700 birskat, pre-1700 birsket, pre-1700 birskit, pre-1700 brescat, pre-1700 briscat, pre-1700 briscatt, pre-1700 briskatt, pre-1700 brisket, pre-1700 byrskart. δ. 1500s bysky, 1500s byskye, 1500s (1800s English regional) bisky, 1800s– biskey (English regional). ε. regional and nonstandard 1900s– bistick. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French biscuit. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman bisquit, Anglo-Norman and Middle French besquit, Middle French bescuit, biscuit, biscut (French biscuit ) dry unleavened bread which has been baked twice (early 14th cent.; the specific use to denote a sweet unleavened cake is first attested later in French than in English: 1660), use as noun (short for pain biscuit twice-baked bread) of biscuit twice baked (12th cent. in Old French as bescuit ) < bes- bes- prefix + cuit , past participle of cuire to cook (see cook v.¹; compare cuit n.). The baked good was so called from its original mode of preparation.Compare post-classical Latin panis biscoctus twice-baked bread (12th cent.; from c1200 in British sources), biscoctus , noun (13th cent.; 1440 in a British source), Old Occitan bescueit (c1200; Occitan bescuèit ), Catalan bescuit (late 13th cent. as bescuyt ), Spanish bizcocho (mid 15th cent. as noun and adjective; end of the 13th cent. as (now rare) biscocho ), Portuguese biscoito (15th cent.; early 14th cent. as bizcoyto ), Italian biscotto (early 14th cent. as noun and adjective), and also Middle High German piscot (German (now regional: Austria) Biskotte ; < Italian), German Biskuit (late 17th cent. as biscuit ; < French). Compare also German Zwieback zwieback n., a calque on the Romance noun. The French forms in bis- show alteration after classical Latin bis- bis- comb. form¹. Specific forms. The β. forms show remodelling after post-classical Latin biscoctus. The γ. forms show an epenthetic -r- , and in some cases metathesis of the cluster resulting from it, while the ε. form shows metathesis. The modern standard spelling biscuit reflects the modern standard French form biscuit in spelling only; the English word has never been pronounced with a medial semivowel. Specific senses. With the specific uses in ceramics (see sense A. 4 and use as adjective) compare bisque n.³, bisque adj. With sense A. 10 compare cookie n. 2b. Earlier example in a Latin context. It is unclear whether the following earlier vernacular example in a Latin context should be taken as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman noun:1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 47 Pro pane albo et bysquyte et viij barellis de farine. A. n. I. Senses referring to food. 1. a. A kind of baked unleavened bread, typically hard and flat and made from a mixture of flour and water, now usually served with cheese; (now more usually) a piece of this, a cracker. In early use also: spec. such bread broken into small pieces and hardened by rebaking, esp. for use on long sea voyages (cf. ship's biscuit n.).Now rare in North American use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] biscuit?a1400 biscuit bread1440 bake1523 biscake1650 cookie1701 bicky1834 sandwich biscuit1901 sandwich cookie1905 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > crispbread or rusk > [noun] biscuit?a1400 rusk1589 boer rusk1902 Ryvita1925 crispbread1926 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 4227 Armour þei had plente & god besquite [a1450 Lamb. bred bysquyd] to mete. ?c1450 Trivet's Life of Constance in F. J. Furnivall Originals & Analogues Canterbury Tales (1876) 229 (MED) Constaunce..made a shyp for to be stored wyth vytayle of a maner of Brede, the whyche ys called Bisquite. 1565 J. Hall Hist. Expost. in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. sig. Bbb.iiii^v Baked harde lyke a bisket. 1634 tr. L. Lessius Hygiasticon iii. 51 Abbat Serapion being a little boy, after..meals with others at the ninth houre of the day..was still a hungry; whereupon he was wont to steal a third bisket, which he used to eat in secret. 1750 N. Owen Jrnl. in E. Martin Jrnl. Slave-dealer (1930) 25 Our whole stock of provision consisted of..4 bisquits, a small pot of sugar, and some limes. 1846 Punch 22 Aug. 66/1 Assuaging my hunger with some biscuit and the captain's potted anchovies, I set to work to barricade myself against savages or wild beasts. 1889 B. C. Robinson Bench & Bar xiii. 185 Follet strolled into the kitchen of the House of Commons..and called for a biscuit and a glass of sherry. 1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 181 Sandwiches of thinnest gruyère between biscuits, or bread spread with green butter are excellent. 2020 @AndiMorris85 13 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 18 Feb. 2020) Just about to relax with some cheese and biscuits after a knackering week in work. b. A small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, crumbly, flat, and sweet, and usually made from a mixture of flour, sugar, butter, and flavourings; (sometimes as a mass noun) food of this kind. Frequently with modifying word specifying the type or flavouring of the biscuit.In North American use cookie is the more common term; cf. sense A. 2.Abernethy biscuit, Bourbon biscuit, chocolate biscuit, finger biscuit, ginger biscuit, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1566 Banquett of Dainties sig. A.vi^v Stewde Proynes, conserue of Cherries red, Peares, Biskets, Suger fine, With nectar dulce, since I am wedde, by voyce of Muses nine. 1696 P. Ayres Revengeful Mistress 33 A large gilt Salver, handsomely fill'd and heaped up with thin Biskets, March-panes, and variety of dried Sweetmeats. 1768 Woman of Honor II. xviii. 66 The refreshments provided..are of no very great expence to Mrs. Pierpoint, who gives the entertainment, being chiefly coffee, tea, chocolate, biscuits, and the like. 1860 All Year Round 7 July 302 A miserable old man in a faded camlet cloak who sat Munching an Abernethy biscuit between his toothless gums. 1930 School Music Rev. 15 Jan. 265/1 The roof was made of biscuit, And apples lay on the sill; Gretel said ‘No! don't risk it,’ But Hansel said ‘Bosh! we will.’ 2011 Times 2 July (Saturday Review section) 16/2 The place is empty but for..a group of three sixtysomethings having tea and biscuits at the far end of the room. 2. North American. A small round savoury cake of bread, similar to a scone in appearance, and typically made from a mixture of flour, fat, and a raising agent; (as mass noun) bread of this type. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > small cake > types of small cake lozengec1430 rundle1587 macaroon1611 cookie1701 Savoy biscuit1719 queen cake1734 madling cake1747 dough1777 butter biscuit1789 rock cake1815 biscuit1818 madeleine1829 éclair1861 fairy cake1867 puftaloon1871 Eccles cake1872 petit four1875 rock bun1879 baby cake1880 rock1892 marigold1896 sponge finger1906 muffin top1914 palmier1920 lamington1929 whoopee pie1929 mandazi1937 French fancy1969 fondant fancy1974 1818 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. U.S. ix. 125 Hot short cakes, called biscuits. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. v. 27 Hot rolls.., a novelty then, but much like biscuits in parts of the Far West. 1919 Amer. Angler Sept. 267/2 The subsequent gratification of a ravenous appetite with fried trout and hot biscuit—no one can fry trout and make hot biscuit like mother. 2015 Bon Appétit Dec. 74 The kitchen focuses on new American standards like fried chicken and biscuits with hot honey. 3. A kind of hard, dry cake of food for animals, now spec. (a) (chiefly in plural) a small pellet of such food fed to pets, esp. cats and dogs; (also a mass noun) such pellets collectively; (b) a piece of such food moulded into a shape and used as a treat for pets, esp. dogs. Also as mass noun: such biscuits collectively.Frequently with modifying word specifying the animal for which the biscuit is intended; cf. dog biscuit n. 1 (in which the sense is recorded earliest).In North America kibble n.⁵ b is more often used than sense A. 3(a). ΚΠ 1823 Sporting Mag. 12 New Ser. 156/2 An advertisement of dog biscuits manufactured by Mr. Smith, of Maidenhead. 1878 Sci. Amer. 31 Aug. 133/3 The horses were fed on the biscuits during twenty-six days. 1935 Manch. Guardian 15 Apr. 12/7 The table was stacked with all kinds of meal and biscuits for the dog. 1964 Washington Post 30 Nov. d15/1 He has two large, well-balanced meals daily plus occasional in-between snacks of raw meat, cat biscuit and milk. 2003 J. Ross & B. McKinney Adoptable Dog xx. 198 The first thing a puppy does when he hears the command is to look to see if the owner is holding a biscuit. 2011 @Smoapii 30 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Feb. 2020) Well, just gave the cat her biscuits and the dog her meat, they each sniffed their own bowls then casually swapped. shrugs II. Something resembling an (edible) biscuit in shape, appearance, consistency, etc. 4. Ceramics. Pottery that has undergone a single firing to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time; a piece of such pottery. Also: spec. a type of unglazed, matt, typically white porcelain used for statuettes, vases, etc. (more fully biscuit porcelain or biscuit china); a piece of this. Cf. earlier Compounds 2a.Cf. bisque n.³ 2, and see also biscuitware n. at Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > unglazed terra-cotta1722 biscuit1768 biscuitware1773 bisque1782 redware1832 terre cuite1869 1768 J. Watt Let. 7 Apr. in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 12 The trouble of putting the glazing on a hard-burnt close body would raise the price too high: but this can be sucked in upon a bisket. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries iii. 92 A person who manufactures toys of earthenware.., painted in oil colours, upon the bisquet which far surpass any thing of the kind he ever saw in this district. 1871 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 716/1 A slender rod of metal.., terminated at one end by a small knob of white, unglazed, biscuit china. 1902 W. Burton Hist. & Descr. Eng. Porcelain xx. 142 In the delicately modelled flower pieces in biscuit porcelain..the artificial petals are almost as delicate as the real ones they imitate. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son (1926) viii. 73 The china was to be of a plain white biscuit with a dark blue and gold border. 2017 K. Millward Surface Decoration x. 94 The biscuit has to be fired again to about 805°C (1481°F). 5. A flat, typically round mass of cured rubber, this being a form in which it is used by manufacturers of rubber products. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [noun] > from specific trees or places hule1846 seringa1847 jintawan1851 Para rubber1857 biscuit1869 Honduras rubber1870 thimble-rubber1881 Para1897 caucho1899 thimble1909 1869 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 17 Dec. 83/1 The ‘biscuit’ consists of all the fine rubber, carefully prepared. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 836 The flat rounded cakes of [South American] rubber made in this manner are known in the London market as ‘biscuits’. 1971 U.S. Patent 3,587,181 7 If natural or synthetic rubbers or compounds are employed, a biscuit of the material is placed in the mold cavity whereupon heat and pressure are applied. 1999 W. J. Bodziak Footwear Impression Evidence (ed. 2) vii. 214 The white biscuit of rubber, which will be formed into the midsole, is placed on top of the already melted blue outsole. 6. A warm light brown colour resembling that of a biscuit (sense A. 1b). Cf. earlier sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > light brown dust-colour1607 milk chocolate1723 café au lait1763 whitey-brown1858 biscuit1879 rachel1880 bisque1891 lobster bisque1895 toast-colour1898 parchment1904 toast1922 suntan1923 milk coffee1972 1879 Sylvia's Home Jrnl. Sept. 299/1 The favourite material is still cashmere, and for summer many costumes are made of it in white, cream, or biscuit. 1903 Delineator Aug. 198/1 Another good tweed dress takes a light shade of biscuit. 2018 Daily Mirror (Ireland) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 24 The classic camel coat trend also makes a comeback for the new season in various tasty shades from biscuit and caramel to toffee and tobacco. 7. Military slang (chiefly British). A small square brown mattress or palliasse. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress > other types box mattress1855 poncho mattress1862 overlay mattress1907 biscuit1915 dog biscuit1925 Posturepedic1946 interior spring mattress1948 California king1997 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand v. 33 ‘Got the biscuits here, Sergeant-Major?’.. The Sergeant-Major dives into a pile of brown blankets and presently extracts three small brown mattresses, each two feet square. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 92 At Salisbury Plain and Camberley in 1909/10 I learnt a number of camping expressions like..biscuits (small mattresses reputed to be as hard as dog-biscuits). 1971 London Mag. Mar. 21 I sleep on biscuits on floorboards in a flat in Belgrave Square. 2017 Derby Tel. (Nexis) 8 Jan. The fortunate ones had a bed with a mattress but others had to make do with three ‘biscuits’, which were miniature mattresses which should have fitted together but which usually showed a distinct reluctance to meet. 8. Ice Hockey slang. A puck. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > equipment hockey1839 puck1886 biscuit1925 1925 Lethbridge (Alberta) Daily Herald 7 Jan. 9/1 Coupez climbed in for the second rebound and landed the biscuit in the net for two all. 2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 14 June 40 As with most sports the goal is pretty simple—the team which puts the biscuit in the basket the most, wins. 9. Woodworking and Joinery. A small thin (originally wooden) oval used to form joints, a number of which are glued or wedged into curved slots cut into the edge of one of the two components to be joined and then pushed into matching slots in the other component. ΚΠ 1931 V. W. Pagé Henley's ABC Gliding & Sailflying 251 ³/ ₁₆-inch plywood gussets or ‘biscuits’ are fastened in the usual way to reinforce the joints. 1989 Pop. Sci. June 140/2 A biscuit joiner now can be used to join solid counter-top materials as well as wood, thanks to recently introduced plastic biscuits. 2013 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 10 Aug. 14 The results [of pocket screw joinery] still don't look as clean and classic as completely hidden biscuits or dowel joints. III. Senses referring to a person. 10. U.S. slang. Usually with dismissive connotations: an attractive young woman. Now somewhat dated. Cf. cookie n. 2b.In quot. 1855 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman morsela1450 honeypot1618 enchantera1704 peach1710 enchantress1713 sparkler1713 enslaver1728 witch1740 fascinatress1799 honey1843 biscuit1855 fairy1862 baby1863 scorcher1881 cracker1891 peacherino1896 hot tamale1897 mink1899 hotty?1913 babe1915 a bit of skirt1916 cookie1917 tomato1918 snuggle-pup1922 nifty1923 brahma1925 package1931 ginch1934 blonde bombshell1942 beast1946 smasher1948 a bit of crackling1949 nymphet1955 nymphette1961 fox1963 beaver1968 superbabe1970 brick house1977 nubile1977 yummy mummy1993 1855 J. Brougham Basket of Chips 327 The biscuit had a little anchovy paste about it..but they soon diskivered that..it was only a Boston cracker. 1944 D. Runyon Runyon a la Carte 134 The chief gets a call today from a biscuit by the name of Barbecue who runs an eating joint out on the Trail. 1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 222/1 Reel in the biscuit... Lure a girl to bed. B. adj. 1. Ceramics. Made of biscuit (in sense A. 4). Cf. bisque adj. 1. ΚΠ 1773 Public Advertiser 25 Jan. The Biscuit Groups and Figures, of which there are great Variety, are modelled with utmost Nicety. 1880 Internat. Exhib. 1876: Rep. & Awards (U.S. Centennial Comm.) III. 581 Biscuit vases and flower-stands with delicate open tracery. 2020 @CeramicsTracey 3 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 26 Feb. 2020) First set of Biscuit pots—now to make my pink glaze! 2. Designating a warm light brown colour resembling that of a biscuit (sense A. 1b); having such a colour. Cf. sense A. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > light brown parchment1597 whited brown1650 whitey-brown1658 coffee-coloured1695 dust-coloured1800 ochre-brown1853 blonde1866 biscuit1875 weedy-brown1886 mousy1888 bisque1890 toast-coloured1898 suntan1923 sunblush1930 rachel1951 1875 York Herald 9 Sept. 6/3 Blue Japanese silk dresses, trimmed with biscuit colour tulle veils. 1902 Sphere 1 Nov. p. vi/1 The Queen, who had worn..a very pretty mauve wrap over a biscuit gown on Saturday, was looking equally sweet on Sunday. 1999 Financial Times 29 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xvi/4 There were wonderful views of the village, the harmony of its pale biscuit stone spoiled only by the presence of two yellow cranes. 2017 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 4 Mar. 44 In the lounge..biscuit linen chesterfield sofas are set against the backdrop of a leather-effect, patterned wall covering. Phrases colloquial. to take (also cop, win) the biscuit: to be the most remarkable or extreme example of its kind; often used ironically or as an expression of surprise. Cf. to take the cake at cake n. and adj. Phrases 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [verb (intransitive)] to take the bun1371 to bear the bellc1374 to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531 to take the cake (also cakes)1839 to take (also cop, win) the biscuit1880 to ring the bell1900 1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 20 Oct. 8/2 Fort Dearborn Division, No. 1, of this city, ‘took the biscuit’, as Mr. Goodwin would say, for their excellent bearing and efficient drill. 1892 Yorks. Evening Post 12 Oct. (Late Buff ed.) 2/6 I know 'Arrygate girls cop the biscuit for beauty. 1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves vi. 167 Of all the absolutely foul sights I have ever seen, this took the biscuit with ridiculous ease. 2001 Libr. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 54 Next the question that helped Pritchard win the biscuit. 2011 Irish Times 10 Sept. 18/1 Jack Russells enjoy a reputation for terrier-like determination and irrepressible energy but Jack, a fine example of the breed, takes the biscuit. Compounds C1. In various types of compounds relating to food.In these compounds, and in food-related compounds at Compounds 3, the meaning of biscuit is now usually sense A. 2 in North American use and sense A. 1 in other regions. a. As a modifier, forming nouns denoting a bag or container used for holding biscuits, as in biscuit bag, biscuit sack, biscuit tin, etc.See also biscuit barrel n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for biscuits or crackers biscuit sack1740 biscuit barrel1787 biscuit bag1837 cracker-box1857 cookie jar1871 cracker-barrel1877 the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > tin > for biscuits biscuit tin2007 1581 A. Gurney Doleful Disc. Fire in E. Dearham, Norfolke sig. C.iv^v Bisket Boxes, Carawayes and these, I leaft at large, for daintie waspes and Bees. 1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 446 A Sail made of a Bisket-sack. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. viii. 152 A sinking pilot will fling out..his very biscuit-bags. 1913 House Beautiful May 191/2 What guest-room would be complete without a biscuit jar, filled with wafers? 1928 C. D. Emerson Hat-Tub Tale vi. 83 He laid his head down upon the biscuit cask in despair. 2007 Sunday Tel. 23 Sept. 27 My room mate..thought me odd but was tolerant as long as I didn't pinch the Gypsy Creams from her biscuit tin. b. As a modifier, forming nouns denoting a place or building where biscuits are made or sold, as in biscuit bakery, biscuit factory, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where biscuits made biscuit factory2019 1788 World 12 Mar. Rempton, at the Original Biscuit Shop,..continues to bake his Wafer, Captain, and American Biscuits. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 452/1 The largest biscuit-manufactories are those..for supplying the navy. 1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 June 1099/2 The biscuit bakery which was once visited by George III. 2019 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 9 July 2 The 2 Sisters Food Group..has a biscuit factory in Uttoxeter. c. With agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which biscuit expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in biscuit baker, biscuit making, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > baker > baker of biscuits biscuit baker1599 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing pastry, biscuits, or cake > [noun] pastrya1516 biscuit making1835 pastrycookery1860 1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 106 The goods belonging to certaine Portugal Iesuites and a Biscuit baker a Portugal, we tooke that ship & did not force the other two. 1770 Borella Court & Country Confectioner 240 All the experienced and professed biscuit makers always put first in the oven those where there is flour. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 452/1 Our description of biscuit-making. 1928 Times of India 16 Oct. 9/2 The aged wife of a biscuit-seller and three girls..were digging earth. 2015 Weston Mercury (Nexis) 31 Jan. 15 Sidcot School's Holiday Club has been hosting a range of activities, most recently biscuit baking. d. As a modifier, with the sense ‘like or resembling a biscuit’, as in biscuit-coloured, biscuit-shaped, etc. ΚΠ 1771 J. R. Forster Flora Amer. Septentrionalis 228 The fruit I am unacquainted with; the root is a flat biscuit-shaped bulb. 1880 Belfast Newsletter 21 Jan. 3/6 The bridesmaids' dresses were composed of a rich biscuit-coloured satin. 2013 J. Gary Short Leash iv. 24 The vet held up the pup's biscuit-sized paws and told me to take a look. ‘He's going to be big. Real big.’ C2. Ceramics. a. As a modifier, in the sense ‘used to fire clay into bisque’ (cf. sense A. 4), as in biscuit oven (now rare), biscuit kiln; also more generally in sense A. 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > pottery kilns pot-oven1702 biscuit oven1768 gloss-oven1825 glaze-kiln1839 porcelain kiln1848 grand feu1850 smother-kiln1851 bisque1853 muffle kiln1853 muffle1875 1752 Gentleman's Mag. 22 348 (caption) The porcelain manufactory at Worcester... 3 Biscuit kilns. 4 Glasing kilns. 1768 J. Wedgwood Let. 13 June in Sel. Lett. (1965) 65 We..cannot keep Pace with the Biscuit oven. 1784 J. Wedgwood in Philos. Trans. 1783 (Royal Soc.) 73 285 Mixed with porcelain biscuit body, it gives darker or lighter shades of black and brown, as the quantity is greater or less in proportion to the body. 1801 Repertory of Arts 15 163 If of metal, [the pallet]..should be enameled... If of porcelain, to be left in the biscuit state. 1863 Adelaide Observer 28 Nov. Suppl. 1/4 It had advanced only so far as the ‘biscuit’ stage; but there is no doubt that, when subjected to the glazing process, it will compare favourably with Staffordshire ware. 1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns viii. 172 There's the biscuit oven, but we can't inspect it because it's just being drawn. 1911 W. A. Nelson Clay Deposits W. Tennessee 110 The ware after being molded is placed in a china ware kiln and burned to biscuit heat. 1981 S. Bates Pottery ix. 51 Another common cause of a pot blowing up is when it has been packed into the biscuit kiln before it is really dry. 2002 J. Doherty Porcelain vii. 72 Fine bowls can be packed rim to rim in the biscuit kiln. b. biscuit clay n. Ceramics pottery that has that has undergone a single firing to harden the clay permanently, prior to glazing. ΚΠ 1868 Scotsman 27 Nov. 5/2 The pieces of ware are dipped singly into the glaze liquid, then they are placed into the ‘seggars’, on sharply pointed tripods of ‘biscuit’ clay. 2011 L. Durbin Archit. Tiles ii. 30 The firing temperature reached about 1000 degrees centigrade over a period of about 36 hours and produced a soft bodied, porous, yellow biscuit clay which was suitable for applying white tin glaze. biscuit-fire v. Ceramics transitive to fire (pottery) so as to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time. ΚΠ 1874 J. S. Wilson Victorian (Austral.) Patent 1891 1/1 After the articles have been biscuit fired I allow them to cool slowly and then dip them in the glazing composition. 1943 Bakersfield Californian 21 Jan. (City section) 9/1 If the work is in pottery, the design is worked out in raw clay, then biscuit fired in the kiln. 2002 J. Doherty Porcelain vii. 71 Most potters choose to biscuit fire their work. biscuit firing n. Ceramics the action of firing pottery so as to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time; the state produced by this process; cf. biscuiting n. at Derivatives, bisque firing n. at bisque n.³ and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1834 Factories Inq. Comm.: Suppl. Rep. Employm. Children in Factories ii. B.1.145 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 167) XX. 1 The ware in its first state, called biscuit-firing. 1896 Brit. Architect 6 Mar. 175/2 The second fire..is much harder than the biscuit firing given to earthenware bodies. 2002 C. Pollard Master Potter of Meiji Japan 82/1 He was also obliged to enlarge one chamber of his largest kiln for the biscuit firing of the pieces. biscuitware n. pottery that has undergone a single firing, esp. that intended to be glazed and fired a second time; pots, ornaments, etc., made from this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > unglazed terra-cotta1722 biscuit1768 biscuitware1773 bisque1782 redware1832 terre cuite1869 1773 Catal. Cameos, Intaglios, Medals & Bas-reliefs (Wedgwood & Bentley) 3 A fine white Biscuit Ware, or Terra Cotta, polished and unpolished. 1843 New Monthly Mag. June 147 There was suspended a wicker-basket, containing a white biscuitware garden-pot. 2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. viii. 117 In the middle of the floor was a heap of broken biscuitware that looked as though someone had been jumping on it. biscuit warehouse n. Ceramics a place where biscuitware is stored after coming out of the biscuit kiln. ΚΠ ?1793 Wakefield's Merchant & Tradesman's Gen. Directory for Year 1794 297 Russel, Edward, Biscuit Warehouse, 453, Strand. 1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns viii. 173 Mynors took the plate..to the biscuit-warehouse. 2016 @burleighpottery 11 May in twitter.com (accessed 26 Feb. 2020) A footbath and a Casters jug in our biscuit warehouse—soon to be decorated & pride of place in someone's home. biscuit warehouseman n. Ceramics (now rare) a person (esp. a man) who manages a biscuit warehouse. ΚΠ 1819 Staffs. Advertiser 13 Nov. 1/2 Wanted, A Steady active Person, to superintend the Workmanship of a considerable Earthenware Manufactory..Also a good Biscuit Warehouseman. 1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns viii. 173 A solitary biscuit-warehouseman was examining the ware. 1947 Evening Sentinel (Staffs.) 3 Dec. 2/5 Situations Vac.—Pottery..Biscuit Warehouseman for General Earthenware wanted at once, permanent position. C3. biscuit barrel n. a barrel used to contain biscuits; (now) spec. a small barrel-shaped container for domestic use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for biscuits or crackers biscuit sack1740 biscuit barrel1787 biscuit bag1837 cracker-box1857 cookie jar1871 cracker-barrel1877 1787 T. Jefferson Let. 18 Sept. in Papers (1955) XII. 145 He has contrived a varnish..for lining biscuit barrels. 1886 F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy (1887) ii. 21 You said..that you wouldn't have them sitting 'round on your biscuit barrels. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xi. 174 People still give plated biscuit-barrels! 2006 T. Hadley in Granta Summer 244 She made cups of milky sweet tea for the children.., gave them the biscuit barrel full of lemon creams. biscuit beater n. chiefly U.S. (now rare) an apparatus for beating biscuit dough, typically comprising a wooden board and a hammer or a roller; cf. beaten biscuit n. at beaten adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1718 Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts 65 Mix it well with Sugar, beat it with a Biscuit-beater. 1917 Vogue 15 May 94/2 She worked the dough a little and then beat it with a biscuit-beater until it blistered. 1992 R. Gerald Alvey Kentucky Bluegrass Country xvi. 263 (caption) Miss Susie Jackson making her world famous beaten biscuits on her homemade, motorized biscuit beater. biscuit beetle n. chiefly British (originally) any of various small beetles which are pests on dried foodstuffs, such as flour, biscuits, herbs, and seeds, and other material derived from plants and animals, such as paper and leather; (in later use spec.) Stegobium paniceum, also called (esp. North American) drugstore beetle. ΚΠ 1889 Indian Museum Notes 1 No. 1, 60 Biscuit beetles. From Mr. W. N. Duncan, of Calcutta, were received (21st June 1888), specimens of beetles which injure ship's-biscuits... Dr. Günther, of the British Museum,..reports on them as follows:—‘All common warehouse insects, Silvanus surinamensis, Rhizopertha pusilla, and Tribolium ferrugineum’. 1990 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 30 Jan. The larva of the biscuit beetle (Stegobium Paniceum to its friends) is fond of the flour paste used in earlier times to glue pages to their bindings. 2010 R. Jones House Guests, House Pests v. 106 The first time I ever found biscuit beetles, they were floating to the surface of the milk I was pouring onto my breakfast cereal. biscuit board n. chiefly U.S. a board on which biscuit dough is rolled out, cut into shapes, etc., before baking. ΚΠ 1847 Cultivator Dec. 380/2 After having been so mixed in part with a large spoon or ladle, it may be turned out upon the biscuit board. 1909 Kindergarten Rev. 21 Jan. 75/1 When the last biscuit was in the biscuit pan, mamma said : ‘Here is a little piece of dough left on my biscuit board. I wonder if there is a little girl in this kitchen who would like to make some little biscuit?’ 2009 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. d3/6 Petra Djurdjevic could have been moving dough from a biscuit board to a baking sheet in her own kitchen. biscuit bomber n. Army slang (chiefly Australian); now historical (also with capital initials) an aircraft used to drop supplies to troops.Frequently used to refer to the Douglas DC-3, which was used to drop supplies in remote parts of New Guinea during the Second World War (1939–45). ΚΠ 1942 Sydney Morning Herald 14 Dec. 7/2 The good work of the ‘biscuit bombers’, as the big supply planes were called by the troops, had given the troops plenty of ammunition and food. 1974 D. Waugh Master White Grass 35 Food will be dropped where necessary by the biscuit-bombers, or carried by boong-train—by native carriers. 1978 R. Macklin Newsfront 99 Above they could see old ‘Biscuit Bombers’, resurrected from war service, dropping supplies. 2012 P. Williams Kokoda Trail for Dummies vi. 272 Movie footage filmed by wartime cinematographer Damien Parer shows Douglas DC3 aircraft (colloquially known as the biscuit bombers) dropping food and equipment to the waiting troops. biscuit-brained adj. rare (of a person) stupid or foolish. ΚΠ 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. H4 Will ye beleeue, what such a bisket brain'd fellow as this saies? 1928 Punch 2 May 488/1 Most of them..spent more time and patience over improving his mind than a conscientious Education Officer does over a party of biscuit-brained Third-Class-Certificate men. 1968 ‘S. Lee’ Vulture's Prey in Amazing Spider-man vs. Vulture (2017) 73 You biscuit-brained bedbug! Do you think you'd be safer with him running loose in the city? biscuit bread n. (a) a kind of baked unleavened bread, typically hard and flat and made from a mixture of flour and water (cf. sense A. 1a); (b) U.S. regional savoury bread in the form of a cake, similar to a scone in appearance, and typically made from a mixture of flour, fat, and a raising agent; cf. sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] biscuit?a1400 biscuit bread1440 bake1523 biscake1650 cookie1701 bicky1834 sandwich biscuit1901 sandwich cookie1905 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 37 Byscute brede, biscoctus. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xxi. 720 Phisitions appoint bisket bread for such as are troubled with rheumes. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 128 Two Ships which he shewed me, that had lay'd in little or nothing by Biscuit Bread, and Ship Beer. ?1805 J. Robertson Coll. Comic Songs 39 We eat beef and biscuit bread, While on dainties you are fed. 1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 286 Everywhere in the mountains we hear of biscuit-bread,..preacher-man, granny-woman and neighbor-people. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1990) I. iv. 67 Nearly every skillet is full of corn-bread. But some like biscuit-bread better. 1963 ‘G. Carr’ Lewker in Norway iv. 82 Two packets of the thin but nourishing Norwegian biscuit-bread called fladbrod. 2007 G. Riley Oxf. Compan. Ital. Food 185/2 In the tigelle of Emilia-Romagna..a thin yeasted flatbread is cooked between two decorated heated tiles to produce a crisp biscuit bread. 2019 @bamasaturday 23 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 27 Feb. 2020) Beef Tips and rice with Brussels sprouts and carrots, Hominy and biscuit bread is what's for supper. biscuit cake n. †(a) (a portion of) baked unleavened bread (see sense A. 1a) (obsolete); (b) a cake with a base of crushed biscuits, esp. one with a base of crushed digestive biscuits with toppings such as fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc., which is chilled rather than baked. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > unleavened bread biscuit cake1593 matzo1650 lavash1662 flatbread1762 fladbröd1799 damper1827 johnnycake1827 bammy1852 salt-rising bread1854 paratha1935 roti canai1974 roti prata1980 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > dish made with biscuit biscuit cake1593 Scotch coffee1815 dogsbody1818 dandyfunk1883 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes honey appleeOE barley-cake1393 seed cakea1400 cake?a1425 pudding-cake?1553 manchet1562 biscuit cake1593 placent1598 poplin1600 jumbal1615 bread pudding1623 semel1643 wine-cakea1661 Shrewsbury cake1670 curd cake1675 fruitcake1687 clap-bread1691 simnel cake1699 orange-flower cake1718 banana cake1726 sweet-cake1726 torte1748 Naples cake1766 Bath cake1769 gofer1769 yeast-cake1795 nutcake1801 tipsy-cake1806 cruller1808 baba1813 lady's finger1818 coconut cake1824 mint cake1825 sices1825 cup-cake1828 batter-cake1830 buckwheat1830 Dundee seed cake1833 fat-cake1839 babka1846 wonder1848 popover1850 cream-cake1855 sly-cake1855 dripping-cake1857 lard-cake1858 puffet1860 quick cake1865 barnbrack1867 matrimony cake1871 brioche1873 Nelson cake1877 cocoa cake1883 sesame cake1883 marinade1888 mystery1889 oblietjie1890 stuffed monkey1892 Greek bread1893 Battenberg1903 Oswego cake1907 nusstorte1911 dump cake1912 Dobos Torte1915 lekach1918 buckle1935 Florentine1936 hash cake1967 space cake1984 1593 M. Sutcliffe Pract., Proc., & Lawes of Armes xvi. 227 Giuing away all the victuals that were in the newe Castle,..his souldiers albeit they begged apace, could not tell where to haue a bisket cake, or other victuals. 1623 W. Capps Let. 31 Mar. in S. M. Kingsbury Recs. Virginia Company (1935) IV. 78 They appointed that euery man should haue halfe a Biskett Cake and halfe a small Can of Beare. a1657 W. Bradford Of Plimouth Plantation (1901) 128 Ther was not so much as bisket-cake or any other victialls for them. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 97 Having perceiv'd my Bread had been low a great while, now I took a Survey of it, and reduc'd myself to one Bisket-cake a Day. 1833 Newcastle Courant 27 July They put an old pelisse in the bottom of the canoe, four biscuit cakes, a bottle containing a few pints of fresh water, six eggs, a little salt pork, and a kettle. 1934 Telegraph (Brisbane) 14 Mar. 16/3 Chocolate Biscuit Cake... Place alternate layers of the mixture and the biscuits until the tin is filled... Stand in cold place until set. 1976 Billy Joe Tatum's Wild Foods Cookbk. & Field Guide ii. 204 B. J.'s Biscuit Cake. This upside-down cake may also be made with such other wild fruits as blackberries or strawberries. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Apr. Sprinkle them [sc. Brazil nuts] over the biscuit cake, then place the remaining glacé cherries among them. † biscuit cast n. (also biscuit's cast) Nautical slang Obsolete the distance that a ship's biscuit can be thrown; a short distance; cf. biscuit throw n., stone's throw n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance wurpc950 stepc1000 footc1300 furlong wayc1384 stone-casta1387 straw brede14.. tinec1420 weec1420 field-breadth1535 field-broad1535 pair of butts1545 straw-breadth1577 stone's throw1581 way-bit?1589 space1609 piece1612 littlea1616 spirt1670 a spit and a stride1676 hair's breadth1706 rope's length1777 biscuit throw1796 a whoop and a holler1815 biscuit toss1836 biscuit cast1843 stone-shot1847 pieceway1886 stone-put1896 pitch-and-putt1925 pieceways1932 1843 J. E. Bingham Narr. Exped. to China (ed. 2) II. vi. 315 This man was in the habit of grooming a pony belonging to his captain, kept..within a biscuit's cast of the ship. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 461 A second [iceberg] had approached within short biscuit-cast. 1909 A. Pratt in Short Stories (N.Y.) May 14 The Saigon, currishly obedient to the Russian's signals, followed suit, bringing up within a biscuit cast of her consort and captor. biscuit cutter n. Baking a utensil, typically a metal or plastic ring or other hollow shape, designed to cut and shape biscuit dough; cf. cookie cutter n. 1. ΚΠ 1839 L. Bryan Kentucky Housewife 306 Knead it well, roll it out into a thin sheet, cut it into cakes with a biscuit cutter.., and bake them in a brisk oven. 1880 York Herald 3 July 7/6 I take my biscuit-cutter and cut from puff paste, very thinly rolled. 2009 J. J. Daymon How to Survive Tough Times 71 Knead [dough] lightly. Roll..and cut with floured cutter. (You can use a glass if you don't have a biscuit cutter.) biscuit dough n. dough used to make biscuits (in various senses); cf. cookie dough n. at cookie n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1817 Hampshire Chron. & Courier 16 June On Monday night the bakehouse of Mr. Whitewood was broken into, and a quantity of flour and biscuit dough stolen therefrom. 1939 I. Wolcott Yankee Cook Bk. 365 Slump. What State-of-Mainers call cooked fruit topped with dumplings or biscuit dough. 2015 S. Orwig Kissed by Rancher ii. 26 The biscuit dough is rising. I'll get the fruit and coffee soon. biscuit joiner n. Woodworking and Joinery a power tool consisting of a very small circular saw in a housing, designed to cut crescent-shaped slots into the edges of components so that they may be joined together using biscuits (sense A. 9); cf. biscuit joint n. ΚΠ 1987 Fine Homebuilding Apr.–May 82/1 (advt.) Freud's new biscuit joiner allows quick, accurate assembly of cabinets, furniture and even picture frames at a fraction of the time as conventional methods. 2012 A. Fraser et al. Woodworking 101 110/1 Mark out the biscuit locations..or save time and align the edge of the biscuit joiner with the edge of the case pieces and plunge-cut. biscuit joint n. Woodworking and Joinery a joint made by gluing or wedging biscuits (sense A. 9) into slots cut into the edges of two components being joined together.Further evidence for the longer term given in quot. 1982 is lacking. ΚΠ 1982 T.R. Griffiths Pract. Theater 149 The joint, often humorously called a 'dog and biscuit' joint, is now complete.] 1986 P. Spielman Gluing & Clamping ix. 138 Biscuit joints. 1989 A. Jackson & D. Day Collins Compl. Woodworker's Man. iv. 136/2 Round dowel holes need to be perfectly aligned if the two joint components are to fit snugly. With a biscuit joint, however, slight lateral adjustment is possible by tapping one component sideways. 2011 S. Lake Kitchens ix. 24 If the worktop does not move once you have removed all of the screws, you may have to cut it away with a saw as it may have been fitted with biscuit joints at the corners. biscuit jointer n. Woodworking and Joinery a power tool consisting of a very small circular saw in a housing, designed to cut crescent-shaped slots into the edges of components so that they may be joined together using biscuits (sense A. 9); = biscuit joiner n. ΚΠ 1982 Fine Woodworking Nov.–Dec. 59/2 (advt.) ‘Biscuit’ jointer available from Markel Design. 1989 A. Jackson & D. Day Collins Compl. Woodworker's Man. iv. 136/1 A biscuit jointer is a specialized miniature plunge saw developed to make a form of tongue and groove joint for cabinet construction. 2018 B. Holden Black & Decker Carpentry Made Simple 40 Use a biscuit jointer (plate jointer) and biscuits (or dowels) to help align mating boards when edge-gluing the tabletop. biscuitroot n. North American any of various North American plants having starchy edible roots, esp. of the genera Camassia (family Asparagaceae) and Lomatium (family Apiaceae); (also) the root of such a plant.cous biscuitroot: see cous n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > quamash root bread1757 camas1805 biscuitroot1837 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > other root vegetables skirret1338 pease earthnut1548 skirret-root1565 rampion1573 Tragopogon1578 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 groundnut1636 sedge-root1648 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 vegetable oyster1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 yam-bean1864 tiger-nut1887 wasabi1903 ramp1946 sunchoke1955 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > quamash root bread1757 camas1805 biscuitroot1837 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > other root vegetables or plants producing them skirret-root1565 Spanish nut1597 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 sisyrinchium1629 sedge-root1648 arrowroot1681 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 native potato1833 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 tobacco-root1845 amadumbi1851 chufa1860 yam-bean1864 parsnip chervil1866 tiger-nut1887 yautia1899 wasabi1903 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. i. 9 The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour. 1953 Herald Jrnl. (Logan, Utah) 29 July 10/2 Biscuitroot is a weed especially menacing to dry farms, since it grows early in the spring and thus robs the wheat crop of valuable moisture. 2002 P. Nabokov & L. Loendorf Amer. Indians & Yellowstone National Park iii. 143/1 There are multiple species and subspecies of plants like bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva),..biscuitroot (Lomatium sp.),..and tobacco-root (Valeriana sp.) that could have been important sources of food. biscuit shooter n. U.S. slang (now rare) a person who serves food quickly; spec. a maid, waitress, or waiter, or a mess cook in a workman's camp, on a ranch, etc.; cf. hash slinger n. at hash n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1873 Rutland (Vermont) Daily Globe 8 Sept. The latest name for table waiters is—‘biscuit shooters’. 1875 Burlington (Iowa) Daily Hawk-eye 21 Sept. 8/1 Who has the better right to the kitchen fire Sunday evenings,..the young lady of the family and her Augustus, or the biscuit shooter and her young man? 1902 Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel 15 Mar. 8/2 When rather young and hard up in Omaha he was a ‘biscuit shooter’ in a ‘hurry up hashhouse’. 1917 Chicago Examiner 3 Aug. 3/4 ‘Are you the cook?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ replied the startled biscuit shooter. 2011 J. D. Nesbitt Gather my Horses iv. 58 He saw her as more than just a biscuit-shooter. biscuit throw n. originally Nautical slang (now rare) the distance that a ship's biscuit can be thrown; (later more generally) a short distance (cf. biscuit toss n., stone's throw n.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance wurpc950 stepc1000 footc1300 furlong wayc1384 stone-casta1387 straw brede14.. tinec1420 weec1420 field-breadth1535 field-broad1535 pair of butts1545 straw-breadth1577 stone's throw1581 way-bit?1589 space1609 piece1612 littlea1616 spirt1670 a spit and a stride1676 hair's breadth1706 rope's length1777 biscuit throw1796 a whoop and a holler1815 biscuit toss1836 biscuit cast1843 stone-shot1847 pieceway1886 stone-put1896 pitch-and-putt1925 pieceways1932 1796 L. Furlong Amer. Coast Pilot 108 Run for Wigwam-Point which you must keep close aboard (within a biscuit throw). 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. viii. 103 Running the brig within biscuit-throw of the weather schooner. 1986 Spectator 19 July 14/2 In a side street, a biscuit throw away from the extravagantly bad Hotel Turist, there is the house of the Prizren League. biscuit toss n. originally Nautical slang (now rare) the distance that a ship's biscuit can be thrown; (later more generally) a short distance; cf. biscuit throw n., stone's throw n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance wurpc950 stepc1000 footc1300 furlong wayc1384 stone-casta1387 straw brede14.. tinec1420 weec1420 field-breadth1535 field-broad1535 pair of butts1545 straw-breadth1577 stone's throw1581 way-bit?1589 space1609 piece1612 littlea1616 spirt1670 a spit and a stride1676 hair's breadth1706 rope's length1777 biscuit throw1796 a whoop and a holler1815 biscuit toss1836 biscuit cast1843 stone-shot1847 pieceway1886 stone-put1896 pitch-and-putt1925 pieceways1932 1836 N. P. Willis in N.-Y. Mirror 14 May 364/2 At the distance of a biscuit-toss from the shore, however, the rock was dropped to leeward, and a small passage appeared. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Jan. 3/1 This was but a biscuit-toss from Crown Office-row. 2006 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 22 Jan. d9 Captain Johnson..ran her [sc. the ship] full speed onto the rocky coastline, which, though a mere biscuit toss away when she stopped, proved to be as elusive as her first reprieve from danger. † biscuit-worm n. Obsolete rare (in quot. 1798, probably) a maggot of a beetle infesting ship's biscuit; compare biscuit beetle n. ΚΠ 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 9 The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms. Derivatives ˈbiscuiting n. Ceramics the action of firing pottery so as to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time; the state produced by this process; = biscuit firing n. at Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] > specific processes fictilage1610 throwing1686 fritting1816 biscuiting1819 slapping1825 blunging1832 jigging1865 baking1868 bossinga1877 kaolinization1886 towing1892 jolleying1901 saggaring1901 mould-running1910 mullitization1939 double-dipping1940 Belgicization1942 prefiring1944 press-moulding1953 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXVIII. at Pottery The ware called white ware is made of the same material, and manufactured precisely in the same way, as far as the biscuiting. 1860 New-Hampsh. Statesman 4 Aug. They are now placed on clay sides, and are ready for biscuiting. 2003 Nottingham Evening Post (Nexis) 11 Jan. 3 The tile is then fired in the kiln—a process called biscuiting—and finally coated in a honey glaze which gives the tile its distinctive colouring. 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