comfit

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.

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.

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..