1. n. (chiefly North America) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavor
2. n. (chiefly North America) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
3. n. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine
4. v. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
5. v. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
6. v. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
7. n. (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
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confection
1. n. A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
2. n. The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
3. n. The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
4. n. (dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
5. n. (dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, seen as very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also seen as impractical or non-utilitarian.
6. n. (pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
7. v. To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
