[sweet-meet] 
| 1. | a sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry. |
| 2. | Usually, sweetmeats. any sweet delicacy of the confectionery or candy kind, as candied fruit, sugar-covered nuts, sugarplums, bonbons, or balls or sticks of candy. |
| sweet·meat (swēt'mēt') n. A sweet delicacy, such as a piece of candy or crystallized fruit. |
