資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.]