1.  confection(n = noun.food) sweet - a food rich in sugar;
is a kind of dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
has particulars: confectionery, confiture, sweetmeat, candy, confect, hardbake, chewing gum, gum, candied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, taffy apple, toffee apple, center, centre, comfit, maraschino, maraschino cherry, nonpareil

2.  confection(n = noun.act) concoction - the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components;
is a kind of creating from raw materials
Derived forms verb confect₂, verb confection₁

   confection(v = verb.creation) comfit, confect - make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected"
is one way to assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
Derived form noun confection₂
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1.  A composition of different materials. [1913 Webster]
"A new confection of mold." [1913 Webster]

2.  A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat. [1913 Webster]
"Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons." [1913 Webster]

3.  A composition of drugs. Shak. [1913 Webster]

4.  A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey. [1913 Webster]
" The pharmacopœias formerly made a distinction between conserves (made of fresh vegetable substances and sugar) and electuaries (medicinal substances combined with sirup or honey), but the distinction is now abandoned and all are called confections." [1913 Webster]

confection, n.
1 a dish or delicacy made with sweet ingredients.
2 mixing, compounding.
3 a fashionable or elaborate article of women's dress.

Derivative:
confectionary adj. (in sense 1).

Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L confectio -onis (as confect)

N  sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.

1.  sugar(n = noun.food) refined sugar - a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative;
is a kind of sweetener, sweetening
has particulars: caramel, caramelized sugar, lump sugar, loaf sugar, sugar loaf, sugarloaf, cane sugar, granulated sugar, beet sugar, corn sugar, brown sugar
Derived form verb sugar₁

2.  sugar(n = noun.substance) carbohydrate, saccharide - an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain;
is a kind of macromolecule, supermolecule
has particulars: ribose, beet sugar, cane sugar, deoxyribose, invert sugar, maple sugar, monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar, oligosaccharide, polyose, polysaccharide, jaggary, jaggery, jagghery, wood sugar, xylose

3.  sugar(n = noun.possession) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum - informal terms for money;
is a kind of money

   sugar(v = verb.perception) saccharify - sweeten with sugar; "sugar your tea"
is one way to dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten
Derived form noun sugar₁
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1.  A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below. [1913 Webster]
" The term sugar includes several commercial grades, as the white or refined, granulated, loaf or lump, and the raw brown or muscovado. In a more general sense, it includes several distinct chemical compounds, as the glucoses, or grape sugars (including glucose proper, dextrose, and levulose), and the sucroses, or true sugars (as cane sugar). All sugars are carbohydrates. See Carbohydrate. The glucoses, or grape sugars, are ketone alcohols of the formula C6H12O6, and they turn the plane of polarization to the right or the left. They are produced from the amyloses and sucroses, as by the action of heat and acids of ferments, and are themselves decomposed by fermentation into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The only sugar (called acrose) as yet produced artificially belongs to this class. The sucroses, or cane sugars, are doubled glucose anhydrides of the formula C12H22O11. They are usually not fermentable as such (cf. Sucrose), and they act on polarized light." [1913 Webster]

2.  By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste. [1913 Webster]

3.  Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words. [1913 Webster]
"Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf?" [1913 Webster]

   In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off. [1913 Webster]

1.  To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

2.  To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof. [1913 Webster]
"With devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself." [1913 Webster]

sugar, n. & v.
--n.
1 a sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, esp. the sugar cane and sugar beet, used in cookery, confectionery, brewing, etc.; sucrose.
2 Chem. any of a group of soluble usu. sweet-tasting crystalline carbohydrates found esp. in plants, e.g. glucose.
3 esp. US colloq. darling, dear (used as a term of address).
4 sweet words; flattery.
5 anything comparable to sugar encasing a pill in reconciling a person to what is unpalatable.
6 sl. a narcotic drug, esp. heroin or LSD (taken on a lump of sugar).
--v.tr.
1 sweeten with sugar.
2 make (one's words, meaning, etc.) more pleasant or welcome.
3 coat with sugar (sugared almond).
4 spread a sugar mixture on (a tree) to catch moths.

Idiom:
sugar beet a beet, Beta vulgaris, from which sugar is extracted. sugar-candy see CANDY 1. sugar cane Bot. any perennial tropical grass of the genus Saccharum, esp. S. officinarum, with tall stout jointed stems from which sugar is made. sugar-coated
1 (of food) enclosed in sugar.
2 made superficially attractive. sugar-daddy (pl. -ies) sl. an elderly man who lavishes gifts on a young woman. sugar-gum Bot. an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus cladocalyx, with sweet foliage eaten by cattle. sugar loaf a conical moulded mass of sugar. sugar-maple any of various trees, esp. Acer saccharum, from the sap of which sugar is made. sugar of lead Chem. = lead acetate (see LEAD(2)). sugar-pea a variety of pea eaten whole including the pod. sugar the pill see PILL. sugar soap an alkaline compound for cleaning or removing paint.

Derivative:
sugarless adj.

Etymology:
ME f. OF {ccedil}ukre, sukere f. It. zucchero prob. f. med.L succarum f. Arab. sukkar

N  favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_e, led captain, crony, fondling, apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart, persona grata, love dear, darling, duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel, mopsey, moppet, princess, sweetheart, sweetie, teacher's pet, general favorite, universal favorite, idol of the people.

N  sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.

beet sugar, blood sugar, brain sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, caramelized sugar, caster sugar, castor sugar, confectioners' sugar, corn sugar, demerara sugar, fruit sugar, granulated sugar, grape sugar, icing sugar, invert sugar, loaf sugar, lump sugar, malt sugar, maple sugar, milk sugar, powdered sugar, refined sugar, simple sugar, spun sugar, sugar apple, sugar beet, sugar bowl, sugar candy, sugar cane, sugar cookie, sugar corn, sugar daddy, sugar loaf, sugar maple, sugar of lead, sugar palm, sugar pea, sugar ray robinson, sugar refinery, sugar shell, sugar snap pea, sugar sorghum, sugar spoon, sugar sumac, sugar syrup, sugar water, wood sugar