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biscuit 1. a. a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour b. (as adjective): biscuit gloves 2. earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com www.biscuit.org.uk www.gourmetsleuth.com biscuit [′bis·kət] (engineering acoustics) (materials) A clay object that has been fired once prior to glazing. Pottery that is unglazed in its final form. (metallurgy) An upset blank for drop forging. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There was an extra bed in it tonight, very near my own, but differently shaped, and scarcely less conspicuous was the new mantel-shelf ornament: a tumbler of milk, with a biscuit on top of it, and a chocolate riding on the biscuit. Wemmick had put all the biscuit into the post, and had paid me my money from a cash-box in a safe, the key of which safe he kept somewhere down his back and produced from his coat-collar like an iron pigtail, we went up-stairs. Above all, there ought to be brought store of biscuit, oat-meal, flour, meal, and the like, in the beginning, till bread may be had. |
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