comfit
(noun) candy containing a fruit or nut
confect, confection, comfit
(verb) make into a confection; “This medicine is home-confected”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
comfit (plural comfits)
A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
comfit (third-person singular simple present comfits, present participle comfiting, simple past and past participle comfited)
(transitive) To preserve dry with sugar.
Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.
comfit (plural comfits)
(Australia) A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"fit, n. Etym: [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Confect.]
Definition: A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Com"fit, v. t.
Definition: To preserve dry with sugar. The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. Cowley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.
