A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.
Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.
The case becomes like that of children bidden to guess in which hand a sweetmeat is concealed.
And the Moorish cafés and the sweetmeat and pastry sellers' shops of Constantine's Arab town, visited on the eve of Ramadan, give such a variety of surprises that no one who has once seen them can ever forget them.
On another side is a sweetmeat seller, a baker of honey cakes, and a vegetable dealer, and even a butcher, who tries to lead his Mussulman brother astray and get him to become a carnivorous animal like us Christians.
Besides the Moorish cafés, the fruit and sweetmeatsellers seem also to do as large a midnight traffic as that of the day.
Ishikichi-San, though a slave to the sweetmeat dealer, is a learned infant.
A cluster of shaven-headed babies swarmed silently about a sweetmeat seller, and beside his push-cart a man clad like a gray-feathered hawk whistled discordantly on a bamboo reed and gyrated with a vacant grin on his pock-marked face.
On entering, a smiling girl brought me some plum-flower tea with a delicate almond flavour, a sweetmeat made of beans and sugar, and a lacquer bowl of frozen snow.
And when the child asked for the sweetmeat, she said to him, "Sweetmeat indeed!
Saying this, he gave a sweetmeat to each of the guards.
This time the policeman heard, and taking one step forward, he held the remaining half of the sweetmeat out to the rook, who, having by this time grown used to being fed, took the offered dainty greedily.
It was not till after supper that he discovered the half-crown, and then it seemed to him like a sort of dream, as if fairies had been at work, and turned the pink sweetmeat into a bit of silver.
The pink sweetmeat went into the pocket of Jan's jacket, and he carried it about with him all the morning.
He had not understood what Jan said, and in an abstracted way, with his eyes still fixed on the rook, he bit the pink sweetmeat in two, and swallowed half of it at a mouthful.
So again the pink sweetmeat was put back into Jan's pocket, and he walked on.
Accordingly the superintendent of the police reclined on the pillow of rest; and when the sweetmeat was ready his wife took a little and putting an opiate into it she handed it to him, saying, "How long will you sleep?
The popular name of a sweetmeat formed of sugar boiled to a candy, and then poured upon an oiled slab, and allowed to cool in the lump.
From the time the sick man had been brought into the house, the beggar had worked with him, giving him tinctures which he boiled with sweetmeat called the Flower of Bambaba, while Cumner's Son rubbed an ointment into his body.
Luddoo, a sweetmeat made of sugar, milk, and flour rolled into balls.
Sweetmeat sellers, fruit sellers, liquor sellers, had all followed their clients to the Artillery parade-ground.
Therewith he gave him the piece of sweetmeat and he took it and kissing his hand, put it in his mouth, knowing not what was hidden for him in the after time for only the Lord of Futurity knoweth the Future.
Quoth she, "O my son, kiss not my head, but kiss me on the mouth and be this kiss by way of sweetmeat for thy salvation.
Cartloads of the sweetmeat were sold every day, and the Brahman in a short time became very rich.
There were sweetmeat shops in which there were heaps of confectioneries ranged in regular rows, but no human beings to sell them.
The species Pteclobyum gives the "Locust-bean," as sold at every little sweetmeat shop in London.
From the coin the word was applied to a small box, and hence apparently to the sweetmeat contained in it.
This rite being performed, the females take each a bit of the sweetmeat and betel which has been last offered to Ma Doorga.
The occasion is accompanied in many cases by the preparation of ananunda naru, a kind of sweetmeat made of powdered rice, treacle, cocoanut and gingelly seeds rolled up into small round balls and fried in mustard oil.
Hence the sweetmeat is called "Lady Canning," and to this day no grand feast among the Bengalis is considered as complete unless the "Lady Canning" sort is offered to the guests.
To be more explicit, the boy eats one half of a sweetmeat and gives the other half to the girl, and the girl in her turn is constrained to follow the same example, though with a blushing countenance and a veiled face.
LOLL'YPOP, a sweetmeat made with sugar and treacle: (pl.
My name is Tara, and I sell firewood to Gunga Ram the sweetmeat vender.
The young wife with only one servant will have to rub up her own silver backed brushes and sweetmeat dishes if she wants them to look nice.
On her return from church her mother places a sweetmeat in her mouth to make her gentle of speech.
Sometimes she would press too hard on a sweetmeat and with a little cry would hold up a sticky finger and thumb.
Just before we arrived, she had been laughing immoderately because I had ordered her to spit out a mass of horrible sweetmeat which she had found it impossible to masticate, and she had challenged me to extract it with my fingers.
In the midst of an earnest discussion with the station-master she begged me for a penny to put into an automatic sweetmeat machine, which she had seen a small boy work successfully.
