Confection: alternatives and connections

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

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Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

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The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

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A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.

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See Kickshaws, the correct singular.

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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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A stain; a tache.

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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

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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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To be placed in a center; to be central.

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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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To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.

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Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

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Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat.

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The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.

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A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

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Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.

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

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To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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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 change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.

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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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