Fruit preserved with sugar; as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, and the like.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
2. The paint used in making patent leather.
3. A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Sweetness Roget’s Thesaurus §396
N. sweetness, dulcitude, # sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food) 298, dulcification|, dulcoration|, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, sweet'n low
Adj. sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet
Phr. eau sucre, "sweets to the sweet"
No Bible verses found for "sweetmeat".