Found 2 items, similar to comfit.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: comfit
comfit
n : candy containing a fruit or nut
v : make into a confection;
“This medicine is home-confected”
[syn:
confect,
confection]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Comfit
Comfit
\Com"fit\, n. [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to
preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere
to make. See
Fact, and cf.
Confect.]
A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved
with sugar and dried; a confection.
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Comfit
\Com"fit\, v. t.
To preserve dry with sugar.
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The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . .
Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. --Cowley.
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