(n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
(n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
(n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first thing that Mikhail Khodorkovsky would have seen when he entered the most historic of all five-star establishments in Berlin would have been a large, illuminated model of the hotel itself, made of cinnamon-flavoured sweetmeat.
(2) He bought sweetmeats in a leaf-cup from a Hindu trader, and ate them with glad rapture until a policeman ordered him off the steps."
(3) He lures an old man with sweetmeats and carries him off.
(4) There is an Indian lullaby about the Moon Uncle , who lives far away, eating delicious sweetmeats and offering some in a bowl to the baby.