Sweetmeat /(?)/

Sweet·meat

Sweetmeat

n.
  1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
  2. The paint used in making patent leather.
  3. A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. (Zool.) [Local, U.S.]