Category:Sweetmeat

Sweet"meat`, n.

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. (zoöl.)

Defn: a boat shell (crepidula fornicata) of the american coast. [local, u.s.]