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. Zool.
A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
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