Definition of Confections

1. Noun. (plural of confection) ¹

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Definition of Confections

1. confection [n] - See also: confection

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confections

confectionaries
confectionary
confectioned
confectioner
confectioner's
confectioner's cream
confectioner's creams
confectioneress
confectioneresses
confectioneries
confectioners
confectioners' sugar
confectioners sugar
confectionery
confectioning
confections (current term)
confectory
confects
confeder
confederacies
confederacy
confederal
confederalism
confederalisms
confederalist
confederalists
confederate
confederate jasmine
confederated
confederately

Literary usage of Confections

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"confections AND LOZENGES. confections. THIS class of medicinal preparations still finds recognition in the leading pharmacopoeias, although, in this country ..."

2. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by DAVID. BREMNER (1869)
"Yea, so That our great King doth woo me oft For my confections." Again, in the bedchamber scene in "Taming the Shrew," cons, are among the delicacies ..."

3. Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Foodquestion ... Explaining, in by Eugene Christian (1914)
"The chief products that enter into confections are the various forms of sugars, chiefly glucose, because of its cheapness; fruits, nut-kernels, ..."

4. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"confections may be defined as flavored masses wherein the adhesive substance ... confections, when made by beating a fresh drug, first reduced to pulp with ..."

5. The Art of Compounding: A Text Book for Students and Reference Book for by Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (1904)
"These must contain plasmas.) containing only fres A (undried) medi- latter are often opaque. (See under confections. — This term now includes both the true ..."

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