Confect: alternatives and connections

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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A composition of different materials.

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Created; composed; begotten.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet orang…

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A stain; a tache.

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Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

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Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

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Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

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A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc.

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To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.

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A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

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See Licorice.

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

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A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

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A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.

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The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

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

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A little pie.

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See Roc.

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One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

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A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

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A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.

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Alt. of Toffy

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Taffy.

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Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffl…

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To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

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A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

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A composition of different materials.

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