Biskor, John de, an artist, born at the Hague in 1646. He excelled in making copies of the pictures of the great masters; but he is best known as an engraver. His works are chiefly etchings, harmonized with the graver; and though slight, yet free, spirited, and pleasing. He worked chiefly at Amsterdam, where he died in 1686.

Bischwiller, a town of France, capital of a canton of the same name, department of Lower Rhine, 14 miles north of Strasburg. It has manufactures of woollen and linen stuffs, oil, soap, earthenware, &c., and some trade in hops, hemp, leather, and tobacco. Pop. (1846) 6242. Its fortifications were destroyed by the imperialists in 1706.

Biscuit. See Baking.

Bishareen, the name of several tribes inhabiting the desert on the western side of the Red Sea, as far north as Lat. 21°, and south to the Taecaze, a branch of the Ataba, the ancient Astaboras. According to Bureckhardt, they are not of Arabian origin, although they have the manners of the Bedouins; but, like their more polished neighbours the Abyssinians, they devour raw flesh.