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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; – usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.

The paint used in making patent leather.

(Zool.)

A boat shell (

Crepidula fornicata

) of the American coast.

[Local, U.S.]

Noun.

[sweet and meat.] Fruit preserved with sugar; as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, and the like.

sweetmeat ‎(plural sweetmeats)

sweet delicacy