collective plural (and †singular) †Sweet food, as sugared cakes or pastry, confectionary (obsolete); preserved or candied fruits, sugared nuts…

Crystallized sugar made by repeated boiling and slow evaporation; = sugar candy, n. 1. Also: any confectionery made of or encrusted with this; a…

dialect. (See quots.)

dialect. The name of a particular kind of sweetmeat, consisting chiefly of sugar or treacle, that dissolves easily in the mouth; plural (formerly…

sweetmeats, sweets, confectionery; also attributive and in other combinations; now frequently in plural; †also euphemistic, gin (obsolete).

English regional (chiefly northern). In singular. Confectionery, sweets.

plural. Sweetmeats. Also collective singular. colloquial.

Candy, sweets; a civilian snack.