BISCUIT

(Fr. bis, twice, and cuit, baked.) In Sculpture, a species of porcelain, of which groups and figures in miniature are formed, which are twice pa ed through the furnace or oven. It is executed without glaze upon it. In Pottery, this term is applied to earthenware and porcelain, after it has been hardened in the fire, and before it receives the glaze: in this state it is permeable to water. [s. 161]