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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪs.kɪt/

Definition 1:
• A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
Labels: Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, sometimes, uncommon, uncountable, in the US and the Philippines

Definition 2:
• A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
Labels: Canada, US, countable, rare, uncountable, in Scotland and Guernsey

Definition 3:
• A cracker.
Example: cheese and biscuits
Example: water biscuits
Example: digestive biscuits
Labels: Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK, countable, uncountable

Definition 4:
• Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: tack, bread
Labels: nautical, transport, countable, especially, uncountable

Definition 5:
• A form of unglazed earthenware.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: biscuitware, biscuitry
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 6:
• A light brown colour.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 7:
• A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: dowel, finger joint, glue strip, spline
Labels: arts, business, carpentry, construction, crafts, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, woodworking, countable, uncountable

Definition 8:
• A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable

Definition 9:
• A handgun, especially a revolver.
Labels: entertainment, lifestyle, music, US, countable, slang, uncountable

Definition 10:
• A puck (hockey puck).
Labels: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports, countable, uncountable

Definition 11:
• The head.
Labels: countable, slang, uncountable

Definition 12:
• An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
Labels: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable

Definition 13:
• A young woman.
Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable
Verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪs.kɪt/

Definition 1:
• To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
Labels: transitive

Definition 2:
• To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.
Labels: New-Zealand, intransitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biscuit