Comfit

(53), n. [Fr. confit, confiture, from confire, to preserve, pickle, from Lat. conficere, to prepare, from con and facere, to make; Pr. confeich, It. confetto, confettura, Sp. confite, Pg. confeito.] A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit or root preserved with sugar and dried; a confect.

(kŭm'fit), v. t. To preserve dry with sugar.

The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. Cowley.