Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See biscuit, 2.

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Examples

  • A little round tea-table stood in the middle of the room, covered with warm tea-biscuit, preserved plums in china saucers, and plates of molasses-pound-cake, with a saucer of golden butter, and one of cheese, placed at equal distances.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • He set his eyes instead on the engravings, which for the most part represented Robert Burns as the Scotch like to picture their national poet, with hair sleek and slightly waved like the coat of a retriever hanging round a face oval and blank and sweet like a tea-biscuit.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • She had used coal ruinously in order to heat the oven for a special sort of tea-biscuit of which Grandmother was very fond.

    Master of the Vineyard Myrtle Reed 1892

  • "Bring me a plate of beefsteak, a cup of coffee, and some tea-biscuit," said Sam, with the air of a man of fortune.

    The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Horatio Alger 1865

  • Fulton Street, where he ordered a cup of coffee, and a plate of tea-biscuit.

    Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves Horatio Alger 1865

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