According to military practice, the bread or biscuit
of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven.
--Gibbon.
2. A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or
made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number
are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first
baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
4. (Sculp.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which
vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
{Meat biscuit}, an alimentary preparation consisting of
matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground
fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.