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ed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.

A confection of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

Ice yacht. See Ice boat (above). -- To break the ice. See under Break. -- Water ice, a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

agi, or lotus eaters. Jujube paste, the dried or inspissated jelly of the jujube; also, a confection made of gum arabic sweetened.

A small piece of confectionery.

The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and medicinal purposes. Licorice fern (Bot.), a name of several kinds of polypody which have rootstocks of a sweetish flavor. -- Licorice sugar. (Chem.) See Glycyrrhizin. -- Licorice weed (Bot.), the tropical plant Scapania aulcis. -- Mountain licorice (Bo…

A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth. Thackeray.

An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos. [Written also majoun.]

A salve or confection of thick consistency. Dunglison.

A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to fiv…

A cake, sweetmeat, or confectión made with almonds or other nuts.

A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.

n aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

ith part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.

Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. Blakely. Succade gourd. (Bot.) Same as Vegetable marrow, under Vegetable.

Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.

th sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.