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Definition of Confections
1. confection [n] - See also: confection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confections
Literary usage of Confections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"Confections AND LOZENGES. Confections. THIS class of medicinal preparations still
finds recognition in the leading pharmacopoeias, although, in this country ..."
2. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by DAVID. BREMNER (1869)
"Yea, so That our great King doth woo me oft For my confections." Again, in the
bedchamber scene in "Taming the Shrew," cons, are among the delicacies ..."
3. Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Foodquestion ... Explaining, in by Eugene Christian (1914)
"The chief products that enter into confections are the various forms of sugars,
chiefly glucose, because of its cheapness; fruits, nut-kernels, ..."
4. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"Confections may be defined as flavored masses wherein the adhesive substance ...
Confections, when made by beating a fresh drug, first reduced to pulp with ..."
5. The Art of Compounding: A Text Book for Students and Reference Book for by Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (1904)
"These must contain plasmas.) containing only fres A (undried) medi- latter are
often opaque. (See under Confections. — This term now includes both the true ..."
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