A sweetmeat; a comfit containing a seed or grain of spice; a preparation made of a mixture of spices; cf. dragée, n. Obsolete.

A prepared dish or delicacy; now, a preparation of fruit, spices, sugar, or the like, used as a relish or dainty; a preserve, sweetmeat, comfit.

a sweetmeat, comfit, confection.

Applied to articles of food: A sweet, a dainty trifle. Obsolete.

A confectionary preparation; a sweetmeat.

A sweetmeat.

A sweet substance. Obsolete. rare.

A sweetmeat, lollipop. Also, sweet cake or the like.

= goody, n.3

A lozenge or other confection made of sugar. Also attributive.

A confection.

Chiefly North American. Any confectionery; sweets and chocolates. Also occasionally: a sweet or chocolate.

collective plural (and †singular) †Sweet food, as sugared cakes or pastry, confectionary (obsolete); preserved or candied fruits, sugared nuts…

colloquial (originally local). A sweet, a ‘suck’. Also spec. (chiefly North American), a lollipop; all-day sucker: see all-day, adj.

In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a sweet thing to eat, a sweet.

Turkish delight; a portion of this.

Chiefly in plural. Something which is particularly tasty to eat; spec. an item of confectionery or sweet food.

A sweetmeat, esp. in lozenge or ‘drop’ form.

‘A sugar plum or sweetmeat in the centre of which is a drug; intended for the more pleasant administration of medicinal substances’ (New Sydenham So…

A sweetmeat (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). Elsewhere now usually = lollipop, n. b.