(n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
(n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
Example Sentences:
(1) A whole website ( nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ) is now dedicated to choosing the best biscuit for the job.
(2) The discount retailer, which sells products ranging from biscuits to dog food and washing-up liquid, said total sales increased more than 12% to nearly £350m in the three months to the end of December.
(3) Hence the nerves, hence the curtain twitching, hence the good tea cups and posh biscuits laid out on the table.
(4) In the spoiled samples, the highest total counts were 820 million in buttermilk biscuits.
(5) They were preparing the breakfast at our thatched hat, it was a tea and some biscuits,” Ali says.
(6) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
(7) We evaluated the effect of a compound containing alginic acid plus antacid (extra-strength Gaviscon) versus active control antacid with equal acid-neutralizing capacity on intraesophageal acid exposure following a high-fat meal (61% fat: sausage, egg, and biscuit).
(8) School-age children in Chile received 30 g of wheat-flour biscuits daily through a National School Lunch Program.
(9) Bond doesn't expect WI sales at local fetes and markets to be affected as the biscuits and preserves "have been made in members' kitchens in limited quantities, as opposed to the WI Foods products that are produced by small-scale family manufacturers in larger quantities for the general public".
(10) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
(11) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
(12) During a metabolic ward study, the addition of dietary fiber in the form of wheat bran biscuits to the diet of five volunteer subjects resulted in an increase in the stool wet weight and fecal solids.
(13) The dog biscuits were completely consumed significantly more often than the baits (155 of 176 [88%] for the biscuits versus 89 of 176 [50.5%] for the four baits; P less than 10(-6)), but were chewed for a significantly shorter time than the baits (mean time 34 sec for the biscuit versus 60-82 sec for the four baits: P less than 0.001).
(14) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
(15) For the 600 hostages snacking on biscuits and chocolate, there is no sleep, no beds, no hot food, no hot drinks, no toilet paper, no washing facilities, a meagre supply of medicines - and, apparently, a deepening bond between the hostage takers and their victims.
(16) The message is clear: Clinton is the elderly grandmother who comes round for tea and biscuits and then has to be driven home when she falls asleep in front of Jeopardy.
(17) ANSWERS: Maths 1 C 2 11am 3 40cm Reading 1 C 2 Fine Foods Ltd 3 Answer must refer to fact that the best before dates identify the batches of biscuits that are affected.
(18) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.
(19) Non-smokers, of both sexes, were significantly more likely than smokers to consume, frequently, fresh fruit in summer and winter, fruit juice, cooked and canned fruit, salads in summer and winter, breakfast cereals, cakes, biscuits, puddings, pasta, poultry, light desserts and preserves.
(20) It got off to a rocky start but intends to focus on Shanghai, where a rapidly growing new strata of Chinese society – the urban rich – has developed a taste for western brands from Prada to Gucci, along with French wine, Spanish olive oil and British biscuits and beer.
Rusk
Definition:
(n.) A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.
(n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
(n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
(2) The sucrose in the rusks, rather than their content of other sugars such as glucose, maltose and lactose, etc, emerged as a major factor in determining their effect on teeth, but cereal components can also play a part in governing adhesiveness and fermentability.
(3) A review of recent research conducted at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City concerning speech and language deficits in closed head injured patients (CHI).
(4) The caries scores in the animal experiments ranged from very high, with rampant dental destruction, for 31%-sucrose rusks, down to virtually non-cariogenic on a zero-sucrose variety.
(5) Exposure tests with ispaghula powder mixed with crushed rusks were made in symptomatic subjects.
(6) The strain was cultivated for seven days at high relative humidity on a substrate mostly of cereals (Karlovarské suchary--Carlsbad rusks).
(7) But we can replace a large proportion of the beef in lasagne ready meals or rusk in sausages with buckwheat without the taste being affected, and consumers eating a more sustainable meal.” • This article was updated on 20 August.
(8) Especially popular with local lawyers at lunchtime, this small taverna’s excellent menu includes such classic Cretan dishes as barley rusks topped with tomatoes and mizithra cheese and peppery sautéed wild greens.
(9) Howard A. Rusk earned the approbation "Father of Rehabilitation Medicine" when he first demonstrated that rehabilitation of the ill and injured made it possible to restore meaning to life and at the same time reduce the duration and costs of disability.
(10) The US secretary of state, Dean Rusk, told one of the secretary general's aides that President Kennedy was "extremely upset" and was threatening to withdraw support from the UN.
(11) The commonest age for starting solid feeding was between 3 and 4 weeks and the practice of adding rusk or cereal to the bottle was common.
(12) As well as having to appeal to Asda Woman or Worcester Woman or Mumsnet Woman, or any other variety of female dreamed up by male wonks who go red when a lady speaks to them, the leader's wife can be expected to be derided as "out of touch" if she doesn't know the price of a packet of custard creams or a rusk or something.
(13) In response to concern over the sugar content and possible dental effects of infants' rusks, a programme of research was undertaken to compare six different kinds of rusk with respect to (a) their cariogenicity in caries-active laboratory rats; (b) their capacity to serve as substrates for acid production by oral microorganisms, and the attack of this acid on dental mineral; (c) the adhesiveness of the rusks to the enamel surface.
(14) The N-terminal segment of human interleukin-2 (hIL-2) appears to mediate binding of the beta hIL-2 receptor (R. Robb, C. Rusk, J. Yodoi, and W. Greene, Proc.
(15) In addition, Rusk and Betts have been magnificent in attracting the public's attention to the needs of the disabled.
(16) In my experience, this distinguished list of advocates has included Rusk, Kottke, Lowman, Lehmann, Spencer, Ditunno and Materson.
(17) Only 20 brands were recommended for use as emergency rations or as nutritious supplements; eight brands were similar to traditional baked biscuits and four were infant rusks.