biscroma (biskroma)

[It., Dan. besköjt ), As dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 2. A small, round, soft cake made from dough raised with yeast or soda, sometimes shortened with lard, etc. [U. S.] -3. In ceram., porcelain, stoneware, or pottery after the first baking, and before the application of the glaze. Formerly bisque. - Meat biscuit, a preparation consisting of the matter extracted from meat by boiling, combined with flour, and baked in the form of biscuits. biscuit-oven (bis'kit-uv"n), n. In ceram., the oven used for the first baking of porcelain, bringing it to the state known as biscuit. biscuit-root (bis'kit-röt), n. A name given to several kinds of wild esculent roots which are extensively used for food by the Indians of the Columbia river region, especially to species of Cama i a and Peucedanum.