Sweetmeat \Sweet"meat`\, 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. (Zo["o]l.) A boat shell ({Crepidula fornicata}) of the
American coast. [Local, U.S.]