1. [N. Amer] Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
   "They served warm, buttery biscuits with the meal"
    
2. [Brit] Any of various small flat sweet cakes
   "He dunked his biscuit in his cup of tea";
   - cookie [N. Amer], cooky [N. Amer, informal], bicky [Brit, informal], bikky [Brit, informal], bikkie [Brit, informal], biccy [Brit, informal]
    
3. A light brown colour
   "The walls were painted a warm biscuit shade"
    
4. A form of unglazed earthenware
   "The artist created a series of biscuit figurines"

Derived forms: biscuits

Type of: cake, light brown, quick bread

Encyclopedia: Biscuit