comfit

noun

1. A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.

   “Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife.”

   “"Why, what are they?" she asked, looking at him askance. ¶ "Hashish; did you never hear of it?" ¶ "Oh, yes; it's that Indian stuff which brings one fantastic visions, isn't it? I've always wanted to see and taste it, and now I will," cried Belle, nibbling at one of the bean-shaped comfits with its green heart.”

   “But since I ate your present of comfits—and they were admirable comfits, and I ate them with speed—my heart is changed and inclined toward you, I know not why or how, except it be through magic.”

2. (Australia)A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.

   “A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose..”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To make into a dry sugared confection.

   “17th c, Abraham Cowley, The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar: The Muse, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5, page 302, The fruit which does ſo quickly waſte, // Men ſcarce can ſee it, much leſs taſte, // Thou comfiteſt in ſweets to make it laſt.”