A kind of sweetmeat.

A kind of sweetmeat (not identified).

A fruit (esp. a type of orange) or sweet originating in or associated with Portugal. Now historical or archaic except in Caribbean use.

a pellet of sugar; †a piece of sugar-paste.

A sweetmeat flavoured with musk.

A musk-flavoured sweetmeat.

A kind of hard confectionery typically made of masses of crystallized sugar, often on a string. Cf. rock, n.1 5d.

comfits made by coating seeds with sugar.

dialect. The name of a particular kind of sweetmeat, consisting chiefly of sugar or treacle, that dissolves easily in the mouth; plural (formerly…

A kind of tart in which the fruit is laid on one half of the rolled out paste, and the other half turned over it; a child's sweetmeat resembling…

a sweetmeat medicated with lavender.

A kind of sweetmeat.

Name for a small sweetmeat or piece of confectionery; a sugar-plum.

A species of sweetmeat flavoured with a preparation from the root of this plant.

A kind of sweetmeat; a piece of this. More fully Gibraltar rock.

Irish English (northern). A brittle confection similar to honeycomb (honeycomb, n. 2c), having a yellow or golden colour and typically made by…

A cake or sweetmeat flavoured with essence of roses or rose water, etc.

U.S. regional (Massachusetts). A small shell-like confection made from sugar and flour, having a printed motto or couplet rolled up inside. Obsolete.

maple sugar; a sweet made from this.

A brittle golden-brown confection, similar to toffee, made by boiling brown sugar or treacle with butter, sometimes with other ingredients added…

= honeycomb, n. 2c.

colloquial. A kind of sweet made up in a form resembling a squib.

Chiefly British and Australian. A crunchy confection, having a crisp, cavitied texture and typically made by boiling together sugar, golden syrup…

A soft sweet confection made originally from the root of the marshmallow plant and later from albumen, gelatin, sugar, etc.; a small cake of this.

= sense 4.

An item of confectionery made from or filled with (usually flavoured and coloured) fondant (sense A. 1).

(a) a cold custard dessert flavoured with coffee; (b) a sugar cream fondant flavoured with coffee essence, sometimes coated with chocolate; also…

a twist of candy or toffee.

a bar of chocolate or other confectionery.

A sweetmeat that is sucked in the mouth.

Originally U.S. A confectionery bar made largely of nuts, or (sometimes more generally) containing nuts.

(Proprietary term.) A sweetmeat composed chiefly of popcorn and syrup. U.S.

Usually with plural agreement. A confection consisting of small, knotted pieces of dough boiled in honey.

U.S. A piece of a type of small, hard, red-coloured confectionery having a strong cinnamon flavour. Chiefly in plural.

(a) a violet-scented cosmetic cream; (b) a violet-flavoured confection.

A kind of dessert served in the canteen at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Chiefly North American. A thin, circular sweet, frequently peppermint-flavoured.

A long string of confectionery resembling a lace, esp. a bootlace (cf. bootlace, n. c). Often with modifying word designating the flavour, as liqu…

A proprietary name for a type of sweet or candy bar.

a sweet made of sugar in the shape of a mouse.

In full Parma violet. British. A type of violet-coloured sweet, used esp. as a breath freshener.

British. = honeycomb, n. 2c.